Fifth grader donates 100th guitar to children in Nicaragua

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, a program of Wichita nonprofit Trees for Life International—bringing the count halfway to the overall goal of 200 guitars.

Adara, a fifth grader at a public school in Wichita, was inspired when she visited the Trees for Life office with her grandfather. There she met Balbir Mathur, president of Trees for Life. Mathur told her about HeartStrings, a movement to provide guitars to kids in Nicaragua who can't afford musical instruments.

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Education

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• Books for Life
• Nicaragua
• guitars

[sk8erboi152012]

hey!! thats my little sister! me and my grandpa actually inspired her to play guitar, her first electric guitar is one of my old guitars :D

[MegaThatguyyouknow]

wow adara...... just wow.......(this is a kid from your school) you need to tell them the TRUTH!