Music Bus Goes Africa
Expanding our Middle East program,
we train young Rwandans as music workshop leaders for children in
the war-torn Great Lakes Area.
Pilot project
In 2010, Musicians without Borders sent two
trainers to visit local organizations and work with children and
women in Rwanda and Uganda. The goal was to assess the needs and
possibilities for a long-term project in the Great Lakes Area in
Central-East Africa, based on MwB methodologies and experience, in
combination with local training, capacity building and
knowledge.
Training Rwandan youth
leaders
A successful cooperation with the local
organization WE-ACTx in Kigali, Rwanda, has led to the continuation
of the project in 2011, where one of MwB trainers gives music
workshop training to more than 20 local youth leaders. Together they
do music workshops with children in the annual summer camps in
different locations around Kigali, and lead music activities during
the Sunday program throughout the year.
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Training week and women's
program
MwB and WE-ACTx are seeking
together to expand the program and include more training weeks
during the year, and to implement the Women-to-Women program in
Rwanda in order to reach genocide survivors and rape
victims.
For more
information, please contact
 Danny
Felsteiner -
Project Manager
Visit our blog for pictures and
stories: http://musicbusgoesafrica.blogspot.com
The Music Bus Goes
Africa replicates the successful Srebrenica
Music Bus and Music Bus Goes Middle
East
programs in
the Great Lakes Area of Rwanda and
Uganda.
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