A Frenchman named Pierre Anthian had a notion:
According to a report in the Guardian Weekly, "I already had the idea of starting a choir when I was volunteering in a soup kitchen back home in France. I didn't want to just serve homeless people soup, as if I were a farmer handing out hay to a herd of cattle. I wanted to help them make something of themselves, to live with human dignity.
Just as the idea was developing, I received my papers to migrate to Canada. I began volunteering in a soup kitchen again as soon as I settled in Montreal, but this time I didn't just ladle soup into the bowls of the homeless who queued up in front of me: I got to know them."
The result? The 12th year of the "homeless choir," in Montreal. Though they started out singing in the Metro, since that beginning they have performed widely, and recorded an album. And Anthian has moved ahead with varied plans for linking up homeless men with employment and educational opportunities.
See his website here.
( Photo by Nachammai Raman.)
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Posted by: Air Jordan France | March 03, 2012 at 10:59 PM
That's a nice song, I remember that my counsin class in school perform it the last year.
Posted by: dakuro | April 07, 2011 at 08:01 AM