Joshua
Cha

On August 26, 2024, Joshua performed as a named featured musician at the Peace Concert: Day of Prayer for North Korea, held at Missionswerk Josua in Dahme, Germany. The concert was spearheaded by Solnamoo Song, the internationally touring Korean flutist known for his peace and humanitarian concerts, and presented by Christliches Missionswerk Josua e.V. with the Pacific-Asia Network and Institute. It brought together professional and emerging musicians to advocate for peace and human rights in North Korea. Joshua was the youngest musician on the program, invited to perform alongside Song and fellow young artists Cian Kim and Chloe Cho. His name and photo appeared on the official concert poster distributed internationally.

In the summer of 2024, my older sister traveled to Tipitapa, Nicaragua, on a medical mission trip. Tipitapa is widely considered one of the poorest communities in Central America, where public schools exist but remain out of reach for many families. Part of her work took her to a school founded and run by missionaries from Korea.

When she came home, one thing she told me stayed with me. Inside the school were musical instruments donated by visiting volunteers over the years: guitars, violins, violas, cellos, clarinets, and keyboards. But the school had no music classes and no music teacher. The students had instruments right in front of them, and no one to teach them how to play.

As a musician at Juilliard Pre-College, I knew exactly what those students needed and what I could do to help. Without a teacher, those instruments would just keep sitting there. That's when I decided I was going to find those students a music teacher.

For just $6,500 a year, less than $18 a day, 150 students in Tipitapa can have a music teacher in their school. Music changed my life. I want that for them too.

They already have the instruments. Help us give them a teacher.

Because of you, we can look further than Nicaragua. In the 2027–2028 school year we're expanding to Liberia in West Africa, where $4,500 a year, less than $13 a day, gives another school its own music teacher.