Miss Ivana (14) helps Children in Burma

Article 7 Days, Dutch newspaper for teens
9 December 2011, week 49, WORLD

Song – What do you do if you want to do something for someone else? Someone that might live in a country that has been hit by a catastrophe for example? You can donate money to a good cause. But you can also write a song. That’s what Ivana (14) from Amsterdam did. Door Tynke Mulder

900 schools have been washed away
by a tsunami in Burma. Wow
And all the kids who survived
have no education, so no future
Flying Teachers is building schools
We should help them in our own way’

In her video clip, Miss Ivana dances in a red plaid skirt, just like Britney Spears. The fourteen year old wrote a song herself for the children in Burma. The country was hit by cycloon Nargis in 2008. ‘A lot of children have lost everything,’ says Ivana. She wanted to do something, so she created a song. It’s called Flying Teachers, just like the organization which builds school in Burma. Ivana: ‘I was at the book presentation of Charlie Hilm, the founder of Flying Teachers. I was so impressed by his photo book about the destroyed schools in Burma. I found it really interesting how one person succeeds in collecting money for building schools. I asked him if I could become an ambassador of Flying Teachers and he agreed. I decided to write a song. Ivana has never been to Burma, ‘But I would love to see what it’s really like over there.’ With her song she hopes to get the attention for Flying Teachers, so that people will donate money. But Ivana also wants to set an example. ‘If you really want something, then you can succeed. I have worked hard on this project, and now I have it done. It’s an example that you can be involved with our fellow humans elsewhere in the world.’