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When I was a teenager, we went through some financial hardship and couldn't afford my piano lessons anymore. I had to quit taking lessons. A year later I'm volunteering at a school function as a pianist for the school choir. The choir director asked me after the first rehearsal where I was taking piano lessons. After explaining that we could no longer afford it, he told me to go to the music school the next day to enroll. He promised to pay for my lessons. I didn't think he was serious, so I didn't enroll. At the next rehearsal he asked me if I had enrolled in piano lessons yet at the music school. After telling him that I had not enrolled yet, he urged me to enroll because I had real talent. So I enrolled. The choir director stopped by my house on the first of every month to give me a check for $100 to pay for my music lessons. The choir director's name was Mr. Stanley Daniel. Every month when he brought the check I asked him if I could repay him by doing chores for him. His answer was always the same: "The only thing I want is for you to do the same for someone else when you are in the position to do so. That's all I want." Mr. Daniel's generosity changed my life.
Mr. Daniel has passed, but his legacy lives on. So, I have started this charity to keep my promise to Mr. Daniel. He started a good thing and I want to keep it going. I hope this charity can change the lives of many children in the community, the same way as mine was changed.