Sascha?Wil­son

Af­ter re­ceiv­ing no re­sponse to hun­dreds of let­ters sent to var­i­ous peo­ple and or­gan­i­sa­tions for help, the youths of Point Fortin Home Work Cen­tre have turned to some­one they know would not fail them-God. The stu­dents are des­per­ate­ly try­ing to raise $586,000 to cov­er the cost of per­form­ing in the in­ter­na­tion­al mu­sic fes­ti­val in Spain next month. In a touch­ing let­ter to God, the stu­dents stat­ed: "We need help. Please let any­one who reads this let­ter find it in their heart to help us. Fa­ther, You said 'suf­fer lit­tle chil­dren to come un­to you for such is your king­dom,' and al­so, "a child will lead them.'

"Fa­ther we are suf­fer­ing men­tal­ly, phys­i­cal­ly and in every oth­er way."?An­oth­er ex­cerpt from the let­ter stat­ed: "We the mem­bers of the choir as­sist­ed in putting hun­dreds of let­ters in en­velopes, putting on stamps, tak­ing them to many of the Gov­ern­ment Min­istries and no one is re­spond­ing.

"We see our co-or­di­na­tor suf­fer­ing in si­lence and it is hurt­ing us ter­ri­bly. Lord, af­ter you most times she is all we have.?Lord, please help us. Fa­ther, we may not be much in the eyes of your peo­ple but Lord we know that we are pre­cious in your sight. "You gave us tal­ent and sent us to the Home Work Cen­tre so that we could be giv­en a chance to use this tal­ent. Is it be­cause we are poor that we are not be­ing looked at or helped?"

The one-page let­ter was signed by all the mem­bers of the choir, par­ents and tu­tors. Co-or­di­na­tor Veron­i­ca Nolan said her heart was break­ing be­cause with no help forth­com­ing the stu­dents' op­por­tu­ni­ty to per­form on an in­ter­na­tion­al stage was like a dis­tant dream. They have been us­ing do­na­tion sheets in an at­tempt to raise funds and last Sat­ur­day held a con­cert but it was poor­ly at­tend­ed.

She said they were able to scrape up enough mon­ey to meet yes­ter­day's dead­line for the $35,000 ac­com­mo­da­tion fee. "We have noth­ing left now. I just don't know what to do," she added. Nolan is hop­ing and pray­ing that good Samar­i­tans come to their aid and help the stu­dents ful­fil their dream.