FORGOTTEN CHILDREN

The Matsiko World Orphan Choir comprises some of the poorest children in the world. They are orphaned and at-risk children from Liberia, West Africa, the 4th poorest country in the world. There are 650 million vulnerable children in the world today. If they held hands, they would circle the earth 12 times.

The children of The Matisko World Orphan Choir give the voiceless a voice. They don’t want pity; they just wish for education, empowerment and the chance to dream of a future and change the cycle of poverty.

Many children are willingly sold to child traffickers by uneducated parents who believe they are giving them a better future.
When children go to school, they educate their parents and communities and prevent future trafficking.

These talented children, some street kids, are changing perceptions of child poverty and using their voices for change, singing for freedom and their future.

Despite how they live, they are the happiest children you will ever meet, savouring every moment and using music to create a positive change.

Hear the voices of the forgotten children.

The lyrics were written by Mark Lee Hegarty, from Cardiff, Wales in the UK.
He has spent over three years working with the children in Liberia and the USA as they travelled across 40 states, singing to educational sponsors that allow other impoverished children to go to school in their own countries.

The beauty of this collaboration with Amina Figarova is that they are singing complex vocal parts that professional elite choirs would find challenging.
To see and hear them singing in their own accents about how they want to use music to create change is a statement to the world about what is possible.

They refuse to be forgotten, now is the time, now is their time.