Bosnia and Herzegovina

In collaboration with War Childhood Museum and Superar in Bosnia and Herzegovina, we bring music and arts activities to vulnerable children in refugee camps and centers.

Twenty years ago, our Music Bus program brought music to vulnerable children in ethnically divided cities, villages, and refugee settlements. Building on networks and expertise from earlier projects, Welcome Notes Bosnia and Herzegovina brings back the mobile music teams. The teams reach out to today’s displaced children in the region, while our partner organization complement the mobile music teams with music and arts workshops.

Rap projects

In collaboration with SOS Children’s Villages in Italy and Greece, Musicians Without Borders rap trainers Manu van Kersbergen and Guus van der Steen worked with unaccompanied minors, co-creating rap songs with young people to express their hopes and dreams for the future.

Music leadership training

We train musicians in inclusive music leadership approaches especially suited to working with vulnerable (young) people experiencing displacement. In Italy, Greece, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, this has focused on work in refugee centers.

In Germany, our training programs in collaboration with Landesmusikakademie North Rhine Westphalia strengthen this center’s structural programs with local and newcomer musicians in support of social inclusion in the region.