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East Grand Rapids Girls Organize Fundraiser for Endangered Animals
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East Grand Rapids Girls Organize Fundraiser for Endangered Animals
Upcoming Benefit Concert Features Local Folk Music Duo, Channing and Quinn
East Grand Rapids, MI: As part of a larger commitment to financially support the preservation of endangered animals, five East Grand Rapids elementary school girls are planning a home concert fundraiser on February 20 (7-10 pm), featuring Grand Rapids- based folk musicians, Channing and Quinn. All of the profits from ticket donations and sales of the group’s animal-related handmade crafts will be donated to the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF). Invitations have already been distributed to this private affair, but the group welcomes media representatives to this event.
The girls, Emma and Anna Paul, Gracie Cole, and Anabel and Olivia Miller, started their educational and philanthropic group, which they call E.S.A.B.A., an acronym for Endangered Sumatran and Bornean Animals, after learning about the endangerment of some of the unique animals of the Indonesian Islands of Sumatra and Borneo, including the Sumatran tiger, orangutan, pygmy elephant, and Sumatran rhino (www.worldwildlife.org/places/borneo-and-sumatra). They have been raising money for WWF (worldwildlife.org) for over a year, committing to send the organization $15 a month, which they raise from a variety of activities. Their efforts have included going door-to-door in their neighborhood offering exchange household work for a donation, and pulling a wagon around their neighborhood selling fresh vegetables grown in one of their family’s garden. Recently, the E.S.A.B.A. girls have been busy creating new crafts to sell at their upcoming concert fundraiser.
After learning about the girls’ fundraising idea, local folk music duo, Nashville transplants Channing and Quinn (channingandquinn.com), enthusiastically agreed to help support this effort by performing a home concert. Channing and Quinn’s, “The Stalker Song,” won the ArtPrize award for Best Folk Song in 2014. Channing and Quinn have been meeting regularly with the E.S.A.B.A. girls to create a concert and event that both entertains and informs attendees about the plight of endangered animals in Sumatra and Borneo. E.S.A.B.A. welcomes media inquiries and coverage at this fundraiser.
Media Contact: Brian Cole, Cole Communications, [email protected]
Cole Communications briancolewriting.wordpress.com
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