Let Them Dream 2011

After our first successful ‘Let Them Dream’ charity concert last year, the Danilo Türk Foundation organized a second charity concert on Monday, 24 October 2011, from which all the money raised will go to the prevention and elimination of the effects of any type of child abuse, more specifically to the crisis centres for children and youth and the construction of a children’s kindergarten in the Slovenian village of the missionary Pedro Opeka in Madagascar, within the context of the Akamasoa project.

Koncert Photography by: Miro Majcen

In front of an audience of 1,527 in the Gallus Hall of Cankarjev dom, broadcast live on TV Slovenia, online on the 24ur.com website, and on the radio station Val 202, performers such as Jan Plestenjak who is also one of the founders of the foundation, as well as Julija Kramar, Maja Keuc, Time to time, Bilbi, Massimo Savić, Zlatko, Erik, and Modrijani, put on a show. The event at the Gallus Hall was hosted by Mojca Mavec and Matjaž Tanko, while Ota Roš and Boštjan Romanih manned the call centre.

During the hour-and-a-half concert, 89 volunteers helped collect donations over the phones. Among them was the foundation’s ambassador Petra Majdič, as well as Alenka Arko, Denis Avdić, Ivijana Banić, Jolanda Bertole, Lado Bizovičar, Dragan Bulič, Branko Čakarmiš, Katarina Čas, Jasmina Jamnik, Rok Kužel, Dejan Ladika, Gojmir Lešnjak Gojc, Jana Morelj, Meta Ornik, Andrej Karoli, Milica Prešeren, Robert Roškar, Ana Tavčar, Nataša Tič Ralijan, Anja Tomažin, Tadej Toš, Katja Tratnik, Gregor Trebušak, Vid Valič, Darja Zgonc, Lili Žagar, and furthermore, volunteers from the Association of Friends of Youth, Rotaract and the office of the Slovenian President.

Koncert Photography by: Planet Siol.net

During of the concert, 3,100 viewers and listeners donated €86,000, to which the €43,509 raised through ticket sales was added. With this, the Slovenian people once again gave the children in need hope to dream.

The funds for the Slovenian crisis centres raised at the second ‘Let Them Dream’ charity concert will go towards the purchase of equipment, additional activities and programmes that are carried out outside of the regular activities of the centre, as well as for leisure activities for the children and youth admitted into the crisis centres. Crisis centres play an important and indispensable role in offering aid and carrying out measures to protect and care for the safety of children and youth in need. This is why it is vital that the Slovenian network of crisis centres is well developed. At the moment there are ten in operation, which unfortunately does not meet the demand.

The foundation raises funds in aid of the prevention and elimination of the effects of any kind of child abuse and violence in various ways, among others they also put together an annual charity concert. All the proceedings from the first ‘Let Them Dream’ charity concert, which amounted to 166,785.52 € from ticket sales and almost five thousand people’s donations, went to four crisis centres for children and youth - in Koper, Krško, Nova Gorica, and a specialized central crisis centre for children of Slovenia, to child assistance Preventa, the rehabilitation of invalid children from Gaza at the Soča University Rehabilitation Institute, a short holiday for children from the war-torn Libyan towns of Misrata and Benghazi, as well as for an excursion for Slovenian children, victims of violence and abuse.