By LAUREL V WILLIAMS Friday, September 14 2012

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IN NEED OF HELP: Point Fortin Homework Centre Choir, hopes to go to Spain to perform in the "Cartar al Mar" Music Festival in Barcelona....

AFTER searching various avenues for financial assistance to represent this country at a music festival in Spain next month, persons from a non-governmental organisation decided to turn to God to achieve their goal.

So determined are the members of the group from the Point Fortin Homework Centre, they put pen to paper recently and wrote a letter which was addressed to God.

The letter stated the Point Fortin Homework Centre Rising Star choir needed help and asked that anyone who reads it, find it in their heart to help members as they are suffering.

The members are hoping to raise close to $600,000 for the overall cost to participate in the music festival “Cantar al Mar 2012 ” (“To sing to the Sea”) in the city of Calella, Barcelona, Spain, from October 15 to 22.

“Lord, we have been given the opportunity to represent our country. We, the members of the choir, assisted in putting hundreds of letters in envelopes, putting on stamps, taking them to TTPost, hand delivering some, and nobody is answering us,” the letter stated. The group, established on May 19, 2009, caters for underprivileged children from Point Fortin and environs. The Centre is based at the OWTU Branch Office located in New Lands, Point Fortin.

Anyone wishing to help, the account number is 970 467 285 501, Republic Bank, Point Fortin.