"If you want to help a community, then by far educations is the best way to do it. I don't know if it matters so much what you teach, but as long as kids get excited about learning and get excited about going to school, that makes a huge difference." "Just by talking about it and it inspires other people to do something similar in their communities, you just never know what kind of ripples you're going to create, right?" "Once you don't think so much about yourself and once you don't think about what you're getting out of it, especially maybe financially, and you just do something for other people, then a lot of things just become maybe a little bit clearer in terms of what needs to get done." "I didn't know what I was expecting, but for some reason I was a little bit surprised that those kids are just the same and they just happened to have been born somewhere else. If you look at people on TV you don't always realize how similar we all are, really." "I have this amount that I'm quite happy to give anyone who has a worthy cause. For me, it's more like a message to the people who are asking to say "Look, I support you, I'm behind you in this and I'm with you." So I hope that many people will be with you because it's a great cause." "Music is a strange animal 'cause you can't touch it, you can't smell it, you can't eat it or anything else, and it's just there. Beethoven's Fifth just keeps coming back at you for 300 years, and that's very, very powerful, spiritual energy." [Quincy Jones] "The collective power of artists can be very impacting. If we all put our egos aside in the service of people in the world who are less fortunate. We're truly all one people. We are all in need of each other." [Harry Belafonte] "I think every individual in the world wants to contribute, and they don't know how. I got a feeling that we're creating a shift in what's going on in the world today, about helping other people. It's compassion. It's real new." [Diana Ross] "The ripple effect that "We Are the World" had was that everyone wanted to try and do it. And artists suddenly realized that they could now make a change in the world. It's one of those things that kids who haven't even been born yet will know about because it was a unity through music." [Steven Ivory, Music journalist] "We believe that artists have a valuable function in any society, since it is the artists who reveal the society to itself." [Harry Belafonte] ""We Are the World" was something that everybody could understand. Even if you didn't speak English, you could understand the melody. You could understand the feeling of the song musically."[Steven Ivory, Music journalist] Rondalla ensemble includes: guitar, bass, octavina, laud, banduria played together. Ukulele 03D Gift page (for INSEAD Giving Day 2024 and beyond) To make your donation just click here [https://forceforgood.insead.edu/class-giving/mba03d-endowed-scholarship] for the MBA'03D Diversity Scholarship [https://forceforgood.insead.edu/class-giving/mba03d-endowed-scholarship]. https://forceforgood.insead.edu/class-giving/mba03d-endowed-scholarship "Let's Play" fund raising page https://give.asia/campaign/support-music-education-for-children-in-philippines#/ "Let's Play" on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/lets.play.malabon.ph?mibextid=ZbWKwL Instagram: letsplayasia