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PLEA TO COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT OVER PLIGHT OF STREET CHILDREN
by Ben Endley
Watford Observer
October 22, 2012 Monday
UK
A composer from Chorleywood is to fly to Columbia next month to meet
with President Juan Manuel Santos and call for more to be done to
help children made homeless by 50 years of conflict in the country.
Next month's visit of Vartan Melkonian, patron of Consortium for Street
Children and ambassador to the United Nations for street children,
comes in the wake of historic peace talks between the government and
left-wing Farc revolutionaries which began last week in Oslo.
Mr Melkonian, of Chenies Village, who himself roamed the streets of
Lebanon following the death of his Armenian mother, fled to Britain
in 1972 and became an accomplished composer.
He will also conduct the Colombian National Symphony Orchestra on
25th November in Bogota.
by Ben Endley
Watford Observer
October 22, 2012 Monday
UK
A composer from Chorleywood is to fly to Columbia next month to meet
with President Juan Manuel Santos and call for more to be done to
help children made homeless by 50 years of conflict in the country.
Next month's visit of Vartan Melkonian, patron of Consortium for Street
Children and ambassador to the United Nations for street children,
comes in the wake of historic peace talks between the government and
left-wing Farc revolutionaries which began last week in Oslo.
Mr Melkonian, of Chenies Village, who himself roamed the streets of
Lebanon following the death of his Armenian mother, fled to Britain
in 1972 and became an accomplished composer.
He will also conduct the Colombian National Symphony Orchestra on
25th November in Bogota.