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    USHER HALL CONCERT WILL RAISE MONEY FOR HAITI EARTHQUAKE ORPHANS
    Tom Allan

    guardian.co.uk
    Thursday 13 May 2010 11.40 BST

    Conan-Doyle themed event featuring Ami Batikian on the Sherlock Violin
    will boost aid efforts of SOS Children

    As relief work continues in post-earthquake Haiti, a special concert
    will be held this Saturday at Usher Hall to raise money for SOS
    Children, one of the charities involved in the country's rebuilding
    process.

    SOS Children is the world's largest charity for orphaned and abandoned
    children, and runs over 500 children's villages in 124 countries. It
    already had an orphan's village in Haiti before the quake, which
    fortunately survived unharmed. But the charity's community fundraising
    coordinator, Mary Pountain, says the operation will need to expand
    because the village has been inundated with orphans and children
    separated from their families since the disaster.

    Interview with Mary Pountain and Dr B Hauffe A further insight into
    Haiti's plight was offered by an Edinburgh GP who recently went to
    the country to work with the emergency aid organisation Medecins Sans
    Frontieres. Dr B Hauffe described what it was like working in a tented
    hospital in the slum area of Port du Soleil, what motivated her to
    volunteer, and reflected on the contrast with her work in Edinburgh.

    The Usher Hall concert will belatedly mark the 150th anniversary
    of the birth of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the fictional
    detective Sherlock Holmes, and will feature the Armenian violinist
    Ani Batikian on the Sherlock Violin. The instrument was made last
    year by Edinburgh violin maker Steve Burnett, who used the wood of
    a 170-year-old sycamore which grew in the garden of Conan Doyle's
    childhood home. Below you can see a video of Batikian playing the
    violin in the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens.
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