Flora, please just ask any guitarist (or any musician come to that)how hard it is to sell a beloved instrument. To some it's like having a leg amputated or worse.

To then use that money to travel half way across the world to the slums of an Indian city to work with the children there is amazing. It's not a hike down to the village hall to play for a barn dance for one night.

I am not decrying the value of what people did for the barn dance and the work of the walking group it's just that it's not quite in the same league.