Airfares for trip to Greece for young Zimbabwian artists Pharis Mashavea and Marvellous Mbulo
Pharis Mashava (18) and Marvellous Mbulo (17) are both wonderful performers with singing and acting skills. They both suffer from Muscular Dystrophy and are in wheelchairs, but this does not prevent them from always being the star performers in the annual plays and performances of the KGVI centre for handicapped children. They write their own songs, alter and add little extra bits to existing songs, have taught themselves to play several musical instruments and act like professionals.
They have been together since junior school and always perform together. Marvellous does the more serious singing while Pharis adds in all the extra background bits and noises. Again with the acting Marvellous takes the serious roles while Pharis is the clown. They were the main actors in a play about AIDS that the KGVI centre put on. The play was wonderful, both moving and with a very direct message which really got through to the audience. They were asked to perform the play again at an AIDS awareness day for all Bulawayo schools at our City Hall, where the play had again a staggering affect.
When an invitation for two students arrived to attend an International Seminar in Performing and Visual Arts in Athens, Greece, one thought immediately of Paris en Marvellous. The seminar is organised by a group of European organisations working with the disabled and would be a wonderful opportunity for them to meet with other performers and to expand their own abilities.
The added confidence and contacts that will come from this seminar will help when they leave school at the end of the year and try to establish themselves as performers. Funding could be found for the costs of the stay of the boys in Greece, but not for the airfares. KGVI Centre certainly does not have funds to cover these kind of costs, with the present economic crisis in Zimbabwe it is already struggling simply to meet everyday running costs. Moments of Joy paid the needed £ 640.
Pharis Mashava (18) and Marvellous Mbulo (17) are both wonderful performers with singing and acting skills. They both suffer from Muscular Dystrophy and are in wheelchairs, but this does not prevent them from always being the star performers in the annual plays and performances of the KGVI centre for handicapped children. They write their own songs, alter and add little extra bits to existing songs, have taught themselves to play several musical instruments and act like professionals.
They have been together since junior school and always perform together. Marvellous does the more serious singing while Pharis adds in all the extra background bits and noises. Again with the acting Marvellous takes the serious roles while Pharis is the clown. They were the main actors in a play about AIDS that the KGVI centre put on. The play was wonderful, both moving and with a very direct message which really got through to the audience. They were asked to perform the play again at an AIDS awareness day for all Bulawayo schools at our City Hall, where the play had again a staggering affect.
When an invitation for two students arrived to attend an International Seminar in Performing and Visual Arts in Athens, Greece, one thought immediately of Paris en Marvellous. The seminar is organised by a group of European organisations working with the disabled and would be a wonderful opportunity for them to meet with other performers and to expand their own abilities.
The added confidence and contacts that will come from this seminar will help when they leave school at the end of the year and try to establish themselves as performers. Funding could be found for the costs of the stay of the boys in Greece, but not for the airfares. KGVI Centre certainly does not have funds to cover these kind of costs, with the present economic crisis in Zimbabwe it is already struggling simply to meet everyday running costs. Moments of Joy paid the needed £ 640.
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