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Tuesday, 18 April 2006
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Alicia Keys performs improptu church song

Alicia at St Gabrielles

Grammy Award-winning songstress Alicia Keys is stealing hearts on her latest visit to South Africa. The R&B artist is in the country again to see the Aids orphans who stole her heart on a previous visit. She first saw the children who live at the Agape orphanage in the Valley of a Thousand Hills, near Durban, then visited Wentworth, to the south of the city, on Sunday to announce the opening of an Aids clinic. The orphanage is home to 35 orphans, some of whom Keys has met before. In 2004, the children at Agape travelled to New York with her as part of a fund-raiser to rebuild their orphanage, which had burnt down.

Keys is an ambassador of the international Keep A Child Alive Foundation, and helps to raise money for Aids orphans around Africa. The foundation's director of regional and international programmes, Dianne Erdnann-Sager, said Keys spent more than three hours with the children at Agape as they told her their shocking stories. But it was during her visit to Wentworth that she probably got her biggest surprise, when a local priest managed to coax her into singing for a group gathered for a thanksgiving.

Father Cereigh Samaai of St Gabrielle's Anglican Church said there had been no plans for Keys to sing but they felt that she could not come all this way and not perform. Keys obliged with an impromptu performance and sang a well-known church song. He said Keys obliged with an impromptu performance and sang a well-known church song, His Eye Is On The Sparrow, to the delight of the appreciative audience. Samaai, who is a member of the Wentworth Aids Action Group, said Keys had helped to raise funds to buy a building in Wentworth, known as Blue Roof, for the development of the community's first Aids healthcare clinic.

He said Keys raised money for antiretrovirals for children around Africa and came to Wentworth because this was one of the sites where money had been allocated for a clinic. He said close to R3-million had been raised to buy the Blue Roof building and more money would be raised to pay for its conversion into a clinic. "Alicia Keys has raised money by holding functions where she gets other celebrities to commit to contributing money for antiretrovirals," Samaai said.

The action group has been involved in Aids testing, home-based care, and assisting local clinics with administering medication

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