Klyde Ledamo, Concert Pianist Performs at St. Ann – May 10, 2025 at 7:00 pm
KLYDE LEDAMO
Concert Pianist Performs
St. Ann’s Parish, on May 10, 2025 at 7 pm
Seating is limited
Free Admission
Donation Accepted, for the benefit of a Pre-K & Kinder Project —
CICM Mission in South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Multi-awarded concert pianist Klyde Ledamo has captivated global audiences, winning competitions and performing with orchestras, with a notable Carnegie Hall debut and a prize-winning performance at the New York Franz Liszt International Piano Competition. Klyde has appeared in concerts across Southeast Asia, Europe, and North America. A native of the Philippines and a former Top-Prize winner of the country’s National Music Competition, he has also won First Prizes from competitions in the United States including the Schubert Club, Lynn Concerto, International Great Composers Competition-Masters of Sonata, Tampa Bay Symphony Concerto, and the National Society of Arts and Letters Piano Competition.
A PRE-K & KINDERGARTEN PROJECT IN KONDO DEWATA
by a CICM missionary team in South Sulawesi—Indonesia
St. Mary Mother of God is a new parish in Kondo Dewata—Archdiocese of Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Located in the interior mountainous region of Toraja, it has 27 outstations with more than 4,000 Catholics spread over the two districts (Simbuang and Mappak). We found at least 4 critical needs in these remote districts such as: No electricity, lack of access to clean water, bad road infrastructure making for difficult travel, and insufficient and lacking attention to adequate education at schools. Most of the students of pre-k and kinder, elementary and middle school live in remote villages; some of them have to walk approximately 10 kilometers (approx. 6.2 miles) one-way in order to arrive at their schools. I imagine just how tiring it is for them, and it becomes worse in rainy season.
Seeing what they have to go through on a daily basis, assessing the challenges and their limited resources, we are called to help them get out, though partially, of their misery. We plan to establish A PRE-K and KINDERGARTEN, and we would like to start this project in April 2025 and complete it, hopefully, within a year. With this new pre-k and kinder building, though still they wear cheap flip-flops in dry season and just barefoot in rainy season, most of the little ones will walk just less than a mile to the school.
We pray to God to send us some benefactors while we keep on animating both local authorities and people in the region to work together and have local fundraising events to aid these most deserving of children.
Fr. Benny Fransiskus CICM, Fr. Marsel Manggau CICM
CICM Mission in Kondo Dewata
How to donate:
Cash or Check payable to St. Ann (MEMO: “Kinder project CICM”)