By Liben

In commemoration of the upcoming third African millennium, the Mesgana Dancers of Ethiopia are back on their second tour in the United States.

The group of ten dancers (ages 7-12), will present a program of cultural dances and songs to audiences from New York to Los Angeles to raise funds for a campaign to send young girls to private schools in Ethiopia.

They are sheduled to appear at New York University’s Skirtball Center for Performing Arts on August 13th and 14th.

Mesgana (an Amharic for gratitude), “represents the hope this tour will bring to the girls of Ethiopia”, says the press alert released by the Children of Ethiopia Education Fund, a non-profit organization based in Murray, Utah, and the tour’s primary organizer.

“If not properly educated, girls in Ethiopia will be faced with disease, prostitution and poverty.”

According to the tour organizers, for two hundred to five hundred dollars a year sponsors can send a student to a private school in Ethiopia.

Currently 800 students are enrolled in the program.

The tour also benefits Ethiopia Reads, another non-profit organization founded in 2003 by Yohannes Gebregeorgis and led by the celebrated children’s author Jane Kurtz. The group establishes libraries in schools in Ethiopia and has published many books in Amharic.

Tadias Magazine is proud to be the media sponsor of the New York Tour. For tickets and other inquires, send email to [email protected]

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