A CHILDREN’S choir from Uganda toured Wyre Forest schools and churches, giving workshops and performances, to raise funds for their home country.

The Pearl of Africa choir visited the area between Thursday, October 14 and Wednesday, October 20 to raise funds to support the Molly and Paul Childcare Foundation, which was established in 1983 to build homes and schools for orphaned and destitute children in the Kampala and Masaka districts of Uganda.

The children’s first concert was at Winterfold House School, in Chaddesley Corbett and they held workshops or concerts at schools including Wolverley Sebright Primary School, the Knoll School, Alverley Primary School, St George’s CE Primary School and Nursery, Wolverley High School and the Wordsley School.

They also performed at St George's Church, in Kidderminster and St Michael's Church, in Norton.

At some schools, Ugandan children taught English children African drumming, song, dancing, games and beadwork.

They also took part in cultural exchange, where the choir compared their school lives with those of English students.

Children who learnt songs during the morning workshops were invited to perform with the choir in the evening concerts.

For further information or to give a donation, contact Kate Oakley on 07791 680204 or visit pearlofafrica.org.uk