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Posted at 9:35 a.m., Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Bands play to benefit Peru needy Sept. 1

Advertiser Staff

PeruDonations.org holds the fundraising concert "Dock Sessions: One Life at a Time" on Sept. 1 at Don Ho's Island Grill at the Aloha Tower Marketplace. Local bands Grand Theft Audio, Pimpbot, Max Murdoch, and Missing Dave are in the lineup. Capoeira Besouro with Mestre Kinha will perform, and KTUH's Mano Lopez will spin Latin jams between sets.

Tickets are $10 at the door, $9 pre-sale at www.MusicMatchBox.net.

There will be door prizes and a raffle featuring gift certificates from 808 Tattoo and The 808 Scene Zine's local music gift basket of CDs and T-shirts. Peruvian silver jewelry will be on sale.

Pass Out Records will debut its compilation album and The 808 Scene Zine celebrates the one-year anniversary of its The Dock Sessions series.

Perudonations.org was born after windward O'ahu residents, Sherrill and Lisa Sturm traveled to the Andean city of Huancayo in 2006. The mother and daughter spent a week teaching at the Aldea el Rosario orphanage.

The duo were inspired by Presli Ordaya, an 11-year-old boy who had suffered severe facial burns. He had the lost some function of his mouth and right eyelid, and had no nostrils. Perudonations was formed to coordinate and facilitate reconstructive surgery for Presli before he leaves the orphanage, and to continue to provide for Presli by helping him develop job skills training.

Perudonations.org is now focusing on 15-year-old Merardo Alvarado, who suffers from dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, a rare disorder in which a simple caress causes the skin to blister and break.

The first benefit concert, "Promise for Presli," held in March, raised a modest amount of money that was sent directly to Peru. Since then, people from around the world, and particularly in Hawai'i, have made donations. So far, $600 has been forwarded to the orphanage, enough to support a family of four for two months.

All of the proceeds of "One Life at a Time" will go directly to Ordaya and Alvarado.

In August, surgeons from Rotoplast International will evaluate Presli for future treatment.

For more information, go to www.perudonations.org.