Each week, EarthFirst.com will be featuring a new ‘Change Agent’ from Changents.com, a social media site that connects people who are doing good in the world with a support system of advocates, donors, publicity generators and fans.
Today’s featured Change Agent is Brad Corrigan, a musician whose unusual journey toward social change began when his band, Braddigan, was asked to perform at a benefit concert in the US for an orphanage in Nicaragua. Brad wasn’t content with merely playing the concert – he traveled to Nicaragua to see the orphanage firsthand, and the experience changed his life.
Brad was driven through a city trash dump by a tour guide, and was amazed at the sight of people living in squalor right there amongst the refuse. He visited several more times, snapping photos in amazement, and at one point a little girl ran up to the car and knocked on the window. What happened next launched Brad’s commitment to help the people of the Managua, Nicaragua trash dumps:
The girl literally dragged him from the car and with a proud smile introduced him to her family and showed him their one-room house (made from corrugated metal and other scraps). That day changed the course of Brad’s life — in March 2007 he founded Love Light and Melody to combat the physical, emotional and spiritual effects of the extreme poverty in this community, which is now his home away from home.
Through Love, Light and Melody Brad is fighting to battle the physical, emotional and spiritual effects of extreme poverty. The organization’s goal is to identify and meet the immediate physical needs, raise awareness about trash dump communities and fight social injustice through music and the arts. They’re actively working to develop job opportunities for these people, and establish a secure and sustainable landfill elsewhere in Managua. They’re helping an elementary school located in the depths of the trash dump with food, recreation and art classes for the children and setting up a property in Managua to serve as a vocational school.
If you’d like to help Love, Light and Melody achieve these goals and more, see Brad’s Change Agent page at Changents.com and join to become one of his backers. You can offer financial, moral or physical support or help Brad get his message out to the masses. You can also learn more about current projects at the Love, Light and Melody website.
Link [Changents] + [Love, Light & Melody]
