Music to their ears: MedArt beneficiaries make trip to Hong Kong for special concert
Boy who was adopted by American family after receiving live-saving care from charity will be in the audience for Sunday’s performance
An unusual concert that highlights the life-saving and connecting power of music and charity is set to get underway in Hong Kong.
MedArt Charity Concert, a biannual event to raise funds and awareness for those in dire need since 2003, features a special work with a special family in the audience at this year’s performance on Sunday night.
“We want to tell moving stories we came across and build and strengthen a community of like-minded people to remember and help those in need,” Dr John Ngan Hin-kay, a urologist and founder, told the Post.
“Jian Guo was just an infant when he was suffering from hydrocephalus and abandoned in Zhengzhou,” Ngan, a Hong Kong University graduate, recalled.
“We took him here and performed a surgery to remove the blockage and returned him to a foster home in Henan province,” he added.
Now a seven-year-old boy and a member of the Martin family in Illinois in America, Jaden, as he is now known, returned to the Chinese soil for the first time since he was adopted in early 2016.
“He would have died without the surgery during his infancy and one act from MedArt made the difference,” said Tammy Martin, who was in town with her husband Barry and their first adopted son Nathan.