Art fair, performance to benefit earthquake relief
By Amy F. Reiter
Thursday June 19, 2008
Robin Scholz
Jesse Teng, 10, right, and Sally Liu, 8, rehearse outside the community center in hopes of being able to sing with the adults at the June 26 earthquake benefit, featuring Chinese folk music, dancing, martial arts, storytelling.
URBANA – Half a world away from China, it may seem easy to forget the cities in ruins, the schools collapsed, the families broken by an earthquake that has already taken more than 69,000 lives.
But some Chinese living in Champaign-Urbana don't want to forget – they want to help, and keep helping, and get everyone else helping while they're at it.
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