




"It takes a lot of practice, especially to memorize them, to be able to sing them," she said. "And a lot of the time, I got people that are native to the country to help me with the national anthem - to help me learn it and pronounce it right."


The family decided to do this in order to help raise awareness and money for a charity called SOS Children's Villages.

"They provide homes for orphaned, abandoned and vulnerable children in 134 countries," said Everitt's mother, Kerrie. "We visited around 35 of these villages in the countries that we have been to and we have seen firsthand that they really work. They provide a mother for children who otherwise would have nobody."

"There is so much bad news on television and in newspapers that we thought, 'How can we create a good story? How can we do something with our daughter because she loves to sing,'" said Tom Everitt, Capri's father. "But we wanted to be something that would be really, really positive, so we got her to practice some national anthems."

Playing off of the Jules Verne's novel "Around the World in Eighty Days," Everitt's mother came up with the idea for this national anthem adventure. The Everitts rented out their home and sold all of their cars to set out the next nine months for this once-in-a-lifetime journey.


A portion of special ticket sales from Friday night's Nationals game is benefiting SOS Children's Villages.