 Ukelele's Heal the World was really a focus and a brainchild of Lee's that moving forward music can bring joy and bring pleasure to everyone. If you know Lee Urban, he's a pretty enthusiastic guy and he's fallen in love with Ukelele and he wants to share that as much as he can. And he came up with the idea of trying to get Ukelele's into kids' hands and finding a way to do that in a way that allows them to not only learn how to play but also be able to have an instrument at the end of their lessons. Ukelele's Heal the World runs Ukelele camps and after 10 minutes the kiddos who have never held a Ukelele are singing and playing and doing chords, 10 minutes. So it's an easy instrument to learn to play. It's pretty easy to learn and the Ukelele's that Lee uses in this program, he color codes the strings which makes it even easier for the kids. By the end of a week's session, an hour a day, the kids are able to sing eight different songs using primarily three or four chords and the kids amaze themselves. They really are excited by the end. We can see that we're really teaching kids more than Ukelele. They're developing self-esteem, they really feel good about themselves. They learn to collaborate because they have to sit next to somebody and show them how to do this and they feel good about that. They can go home with their Ukelele after a Ukelele camp. We give them, each of them, get their own. And by themselves they can start making music, start making songs on their own. It's easy and because of that they feel confident, you know, a sense of accomplishment that they've really learned something. They get a feeling of self-satisfaction and achievement and that they've really accomplished something that maybe they were never exposed to before and I think really that grows into their, they take that into their daily lives and moving forward. Being as a rule, you see that sense of pride that young people and older students have as well and that's very, it's just powerful. It's all about connecting with one kid, it's all about connecting with one kid and through Ukelele camps we've connected with at least 200 kids who have parents or guardians who are affected by them playing that. Who are affected by the friends who see now Johnny and Khalid know how to play the Ukelele. So, you know, I have no intention, no present intention of doing anything more than we're doing now which is just spreading the joy of Ukelele's in great importance. The children didn't have any idea, I don't think, what they signed up for when they started on the first session and by the end they were just totally changed. They were focused on the instrument, how to tune it, how to care for it and when we told them that they were able to keep the instrument and the case and the tuner it was just like you'd given them a million dollars. The enthusiasm that they get when they know, these are generally five-day camps so at the beginning they start out, they're not really sure about how to do this but by the fifth day there's a lot of enthusiasm because that generally is the day where they have a performance and for them that's kind of a big deal that they're going to be playing for other people and so I think that's really fun to watch, their excitement and to see their friends and their teachers, you know, be happy and excited for them as well. Everyone responds to Lee and it's really high energy when you go and support him during his instructional period all the time. He really motivates young people, he motivates adults and young adults as well. He's enthusiastic, he's got full of energy all the time, he's got big ideas and he pursues them. Lee is perfect for this, he's so full of enthusiasm, I mean he's got so much energy and it's positive energy and he loves being around kids, it's very infectious. He's one of those individuals that when he picks up a project or starts an idea he gives a hundred and fifty percent effort to it and a lot of enthusiasm and that kind of charismatic personality draws other people in as well. Like I said he's full of energy and he's self deprecating and he just brings a lot of fun to the room so for the most part kids really pick up on it and enjoy it. Lee has a way of really just fostering that interest and getting them really laughing and just having fun. What I get out of it is a sense of joy and that I may have positively affected a young person's life. It's something that really reaches across all ages. Everybody loves it or has an experience with it, their father or their grandfather played it when they were growing up or their mother or grandmother. It's really been eye-opening to see how many people have been touched by the ukulele. Just I would encourage anyone to play a ukulele, it's inexpensive to get started and it's a great way to meet people, it's a great way to put joy into your life. It's an accessible instrument and so your eyes line up, hey that is kind of cool. Can I hold it? That's the joy of the ukulele, it's accessible. What a lot of people say is it's such a happy instrument, it's very, the way that it sounds is just joyful and I think that people, one of our friends says, I just have to hold the ukulele and people will smile at me. It's about the ukulele, anybody could do this but I happen to have the ukulele in that school and happen to be doing a ukulele camp and a teacher was there and she said, you know, you have changed the life of at least four of those kids. I get chills saying it, I get chills thinking of it, that's all I need, just to hopefully have had a positive influence and the ukulele is the vehicle.