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14 december 2017 14:16:18

 
DJ Hardwell is inspired by India (Metronieuws Binnenland)
 


Hardwell is one of the biggest DJ´s in the world. In India he saw homeless children sleeping under one of his billboards. It touched him so deeply that he decided to help them. A gigantic dance concert free for everyone which supports children living in the slums of India. It sounds too good to be true, but that´s what the world famous Dutch DJ Hardwell did. Together with charity organization Magic Bus he was responsible for Hardwell´s World´s Biggest Guestlist, an event of three days with which money was raised in the beginning of December to send children in India to school. `The first time I was in India, I was confronted with homeless children. They were sleeping under my own billboard`, the DJ tells Metro. `That touched me so deeply that I thought: the next time I´m here, I want to do something back`. That turned out to be World´s Biggest Guestlist. `In other words, one big guestlist. No one pays an entrance fee. The festival´s revenues were for my foundation and Magic Bus. We want to help as many children as possible with education in India.`   Hardwell previously held such an event in Mumbai. `To return 2,5 years later and stand face to face with children whom you´ve helped, that´s an unforgettable experience. Then you really see for whom you do it.` Hardwell also saw that at the schools he visited in India. He remembers one girl in particular. `She told that her parents wanted to arrange her marriage when she was ten years old. She was abused and wanted to end her life. She ended up in the Magic Bus program and now, two years later, she´s going to take up a study. She will become a nurse. Just recently she didn´t want to live anymore and now she´s going to help others.` Most children in India would love to go to school. `The biggest problem is to actually get the children out of the slums`, the DJ says. `Young girls are often married off, boys don´t get the chance to go to school. Magic Bus is committed to actually send them to school. Often ...


 
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