This new song from Wales is dedicated to the Children of Haiti. Created as part of a repertoire of music towards a musical tour by members of our local children's choir and orchestra from
Ysgol Gyfun Bryntawe and
Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr in Swansea. An inspired group of about thirty children have been invited to perform in
Haiti next year when we aim to join our hearts in unison with
Jean-Robert Cadet and the future Haitian generation.
Entitled "Love Can Join Our Hearts" ...this song aims to blend some of the essential principles of the
UNCRC (children's rights) with a desire for universal love and participation - reaching out for global support towards an end to the child
'restavek' system in Haiti. Today more than 250,000 children are mercilessly trapped into a valueless lifetime of unpaid domestic servitude, in cities such as its capital,
Port-au-Prince.
We believe the fruit of time has ripened and all Haitian children should be afforded the same axiomatic freedoms to access their rights to shine .... but this mission needs the solidarity of a Global collective ....
... For more information about child 'restavek' - How to pledge your support as an individual, school, education provider, university or community enterprise, please do not hesitate to ask what you can do - Perhaps 'Meet & Greet' former UN envoy, author and former 'restavek' Dr. Jean-Robert Cadet in Wales, or England, later this year.
Please feel free to use and share these lyrics widely but do acknowledge the author and most importantly the cause for which it has been written:
“Love Can
Join Our Hearts”
I would
swim across the ocean
Upon a
float of rights for children,
To share
with you a vision
For
children everywhere.
I would
share my right to play time
With every
child denied;
To join
our hearts in friendship,
Just to
make you smile.
When life
is hard and lonely,
Let us not
forget,
The power
that love has to
Rescue
broken dreams
Chorus:
Love can
join our hearts
Between
your world and mine
Love can
join our hearts
Don’t you
think its time,
For equal
rights to shine
I will
sing my love so loudly
For all
the world to hear,
Just so
every child can know
They must
no longer live in fear.
So reach
out your heart to children
In global unison
Help our
fellow man to see that love is strength
And no
stronger bond unites us than the one we tie ourselves
Chorus:
Love can
join our hearts
Between
your world and mine
Love can
join our hearts
Don’t you
think it’s time
For equal
rights to shine
So I will reach
out my arms to hug you
If you
feel lost, unloved or forgotten
I will be that
special someone who
Shows you
that I care
For my
rights are your rights and so
Let’s
leave ‘no’ child behind
Sing out
loud and create a noise
For our
future’s are intertwined
Chorus:
Love can
join our hearts
Between
your world and mine
Love can join
our hearts
Don’t you
think it’s time
For equal
rights to shine.
(Lyrics created by Angela Smith @Projectpiece, Swansea: 20/2/2014)
Key Supporters include: UNICEF, Wales, Swansea Cabinet Members, Swansea University, University of Wales Trinity St. David ....
