Adara Claphan, 10, is not only learning to play guitar herself—she also is raising money so that poor children in Nicaragua will have guitars to play. One of the guitars she is sponsoring is the 100th to be donated through HeartStrings—bringing the count halfway to the overall goal of 200 guitars.
To raise money for the guitars, Adara has been selling jewelry to people at her school and church, and going door-to-door in her neighborhood.
When asked why she is reaching out to help children in another part of the world, children she will never meet, Adara explains: “I thought about how much I like playing guitar, and how it would make another kid in a different country feel—happier than I feel, because I know they’re probably a poor country and don’t get many things like this.
“I always think, when I get a Christmas gift, I feel there’s kids that don’t get Christmas, and there’s kids that don’t even get meals every day. So, when I send a guitar, they kind of get a Christmas gift.”
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