By SARAH SHMERLING | Editor-in-Chief
The Palisades Charter High School Women in STEM Club and the Dillon Henry Foundation have partnered to host “An Afternoon of Music for Congo Peace School” on June 4 from 2 to 5 p.m.
“An afternoon filled with live music, appetizers and special guest Congo Peace School Co-Founder Amani Matabaro,” according to a flyer for the event.
The event will be an “America’s Got Talent”-style backyard concert, which will have vocal and instrumental performers, as well as a set of judges.
Palisades Charter High School sophomores Leena Adeli and Maren Ghaffari launched the Women in STEM Club last year. Since creating the club and taking on the roles of co-presidents, the friends have launched different fundraising opportunities to support women and empower them to be involved in STEM—an acronym that stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
“The Dillon Henry Foundation has been created to honor the memory of Dillon Henry,” according to the organization, “a remarkable teenager, who wanted to make the world a better place and planned to do it through great leadership and compassion.”
Palisadian Harriet Zaretsky honors her son, Richard Dillon Henry, a Pali High student who died at the age of 17 in 2007, through the efforts of the foundation.
One project the foundation supports is The Congo Peace School, which provides an education to students of the Democratic Republic of Congo who cannot afford school fees.
The club and foundation previously partnered together this year in March for a fundraising event at BOCA, where owner Denise Martinez donated 20% of sales from an event to the school, which turned out to be $3,700, according to Leena’s mom, Fati Adeli. The funds went to “much-needed feminine products for the girls at the school.”
Tickets for the June 4 event are $10 for attendees under the age of 18, $50 for adults and $25 for teachers. It will take place at 801 Latimer Road.
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