Cirque du Soleil Oxfam benefit night
Cirque du Soleil returns to the Royal Albert Hall in February 2010
On Friday 5 February, The Royal Albert Hall will host a benefit performance of Varekai to raise funds for Oxfam's work with young people in Tanzania.
The project being supported will directly benefit 80,000 children and over 1,700 teachers in Shinyanga, north Tanzania.
In Shinyanga there was very poor achievement in primary schools and not many students were continuing on to secondary education. Teachers had had little training and teaching methods were poor and outdated – with teachers simply dictating to children with very few books or resources.
Oxfam has been working on a project to improve teaching since 2003. Since then, the quality of teaching has risen dramatically, exam results have improved by 30% and the number of children progressing on to secondary school has doubled.
With your support, Oxfam can ensure these improvements are continued and replicated nationally to benefit thousands more children in Tanzania. For a better education. And a better start in life.
Cirque du Soleil and Oxfam: Supporting young people out of poverty
Over the last 10 years, the lives of thousands of poor people have changed for the better as a result the partnership between Cirque du Soleil and Oxfam.
Funds raised from benefit nights have gone to a wide range of Oxfam projects all around the world. Previous projects that Cirque du Soleil have funded include:
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Cirque du Soleil and the Royal Albert Hall for all their support over the last 10 years, making this crucial and life-changing work possible.
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