The 20th. of May is going to be a date to celebrate; the first shipment of instruments from SINEM arrived to Pochote. This is the first of three programed shipments for this year. A truck loaded with dreams opened its doors releasing bunches of boxes containing violins, cellos, basses, wind and percussion instruments as well as plenty of office equipment.
The expectations of the children were fulfilled once they opened the packages, their big smiles being the first product of the effort behind the SINEM-HARMONY alliance.
Many of our little ones now can count on having an instrument for their personal use, to continue growing, to continue learning , to continue dreaming through music.
In the coming weeks and coinciding with the second delivery of the Instruments we will host the official opening of the program in the presence of Dr.Oscar Arias Sanchez, the President of the Republic, the Minister of Culture, and Ricardo Vargas the General Director of SINEM.
This adventure started two years ago; little by little and thanks to the support of Harmony Developments and in particular Donald Thomson and his wife Terry-Lee together with a group of "dreamers" the project has been growing. It wasn't that long ago that it took its first steps with the help of just one violin and one Cello, the personal instruments of our teachers Jorge and Jenny. Then one by one they appeared....another violin...a cello....a keyboard...this is how we started down our path.
Today, thanks to the support of SINEM our first instruments will begin a journey that will put them in the hands of other girls and boys but this time in Africa, in a small village in Tanzania called Kitonga.
There to a school founded by our friends from the charity Heart to Heart Africa.
We hope that in the near future, like the instruments, some of our students can begin a journey to meet their new friends"RAFIKI" (in swahili) sharing their experiences, but above all share the internal MUSIC in their hearts. THIS IS SOCIAL SYMBIOSIS
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