A New Song for the Children of Haiti, with love from Swansea in Wales.

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 ....