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            Shawnee State University’s International Forum presents a free concert by the Children of the World Choir at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 19, in Clark Memorial Library’s Flohr Lecture Hall.
            The children are from developing nations and they are trying to raise money for deep wells to provide much needed water to communities in underdeveloped nations.
            Every day 6,000 children die from water-related illnesses – diarrhea, malaria, typhoid, cholera, worms and parasites, and trachoma – just to name a few. With each sip of unclean water, the number of deaths grows.
            The orphaned and disadvantaged children in the choir travel across the United States for 10 months, inspiring people to get involved in helping change the world and improve the lives of children who have been devastated by civil war, famine, poverty, unclean water and preventable diseases.
            One deep bore well costs $15,000 and can provide life-saving water for a village of 1,000 people for 20 years.
            The concert is free and open to the public. To find out more about Children of the World Choir, go to www.worldhelp.net.