New York. – Salsa singer Marc Anthony and business leader Henry Cardenas, who produces "Los Tres Grandes" (The Big Three), headed an auction in New York Thursday to raise funds for the Children of Christ Orphanage in the Dominican Republic.

"I met children who changed my life forever," the singer told Efe during the ceremony in Harlem’s Barrio Latino Museum, located in a building which when it opened in 1920 was precisely an orphanage.

The children Marc Anthony referred to live in the orphanage founded by Sonia Hanes, and the funds raised will build a residence and school for its more than 200 minors, and will cost from US$1.5 million to two million dollars, Cardenas said.