André Kuik, who performed Change during the third heat and the second chance heat of the Dutch Nationaal Songfestival 2004 offers the dresses of his backing vocals in an auction. The profit goes to a project for Belarussian schools.
On the website huifkar.nl people can bid for the dresses. The dresses are hand made and contain all flags of this year's participating countries, 36 in total.
For the children of Belarus
The profit of the auction will go to Sponsor the bus, which is a Dutch inititiative to raise money for Belarussian school facilities, such as a schoolbus, sanitary and comparable expences. Besides the auction, a team of people will do a bike tour of 1600 kilometers to raise money. The tour starts on 4th May in Juratiski, Belarus, on the same day the Dutch delegation flies from Amsterdam to Istanbul, and ends on 15th May, the day of the Eurovision Song Contest final, in Dieven, The Netherlands.
A better world
“I am very happy the dresses can help to create a better world”, André Kuik said. “Even the Belarussian flag is included”, he added. Belarus will participate for the first time this year, with the song My Galileo performed by Aleksandra & Konstantin. What the Eurovision Song Contest can all be good for…
