Updates from Japan and Cambodia Tour with His Holiness Gayuna Cealo

 Lee Has been blessed to be able to use his original music to raise funds for needful children .In 2002, Lee met His Holiness Cealo, who asked Lee to us his music and vocal gifts to raise money for the street children in Cambodia and Burma.  Lee composed, preformed and produced three CD's of His Holiness Cealo's Hymns and accompanied Cealo to Japan to perform four times throughout 2003 and early 2004, also traveling twice to Cambodia -  in January and March of 2004.

 

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Heart Expo Photos		   In February 2004 Cealo's HEART EXPO 2004 was held in Takamatsu, Japan, and Lee accompanied thirteen orphans from The Palm Tree Foundation, an orphanage which Cealo supports in Cambodia, along with Princess Sisowath to perform in Japan.  These children had never even used flush toilets, let alone been on a plane to an industrialised country! Lee performed original music with Cealo's Global Harmony Band, and the children danced native Kmer dances for an audience of over 1000 people from the US and Japan at an Opera House in Takamatsu. All proceeds benefitted an orphanage for HIV babies in Phnom Penh.

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Cambodia Photos		 In March of 2004, Lee returned to Cambodia for the second time in a month to accompany HIs Holiness Cealo, who orchestrated a dance contest for orphanages throughout Cambodia.  The prize monies Cealo supplied went directly to support the winning orphanages in their continuing health and education efforts.

Princes Sisowath, Tsuyoki , Lee and some of the older boys from Palm Tree Foundation distribute 9 tons of rice and school supplies that Cealo brought to a Cambodian village near the Vietnam border.

 The trips to Cambodia with His Holiness Cealo were frought with Challenge, Love and Transformation.  

Click on this links to read about the Dance Contest on Cealo's website

You can read a personal account of the event that Lee Ellis wrote during his second trip to Cambodia.