Reference :
V-P-CH-E-00656
Date :
05/10/2010
Caption :
Geneva, ICRC Headquarter. Musician Seckou Keita is launching a new partnership with the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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Kora star Seckou Keita helps raise funds for the ICRC
29-10-2010 Event
Renowned musician Seckou Keita, otherwise known as Senegal's Hendrix of the Kora, is launching a new partnership with the International Committee of the Red Cross.
This partnership will see Seckou donate 50% of all the proceeds from his most recent and highly acclaimed album, The Silimbo Passage over the next six months.
Seckou chose the ICRC because it is a humanitarian organization particularly close to his heart. He grew up in Casamance, Southern Senegal, a region that has been affected by armed violence for the last 30 years, leading to increasing instability, rising poverty and the loss of many lives.
There is only one humanitarian organization that Seckou and the people of Casamance remember from their childhood: “The Red Cross sparks memories from my youth. I didn't know what they were about but I knew they were doing good things,” he says.
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