(ይህንን ፖስት (ልጥፍ) በአማርኛ ማንበብ ትችላላችሁ፡፡)

During last year’s follow-up visits to our Partner settings in Ethiopia carried out by our Advisory Panel members, Erin Williams-Jones and Alastair Robertson, we had the chance to see the collection of musical instruments at each place and identified that some Partners could benefit from additional instruments.  You may remember from Erin’s and Alastair’s most recent blog, we were able to help Lebeza Psychiatry Clinic repair a damaged bongo.

We know that sometimes not all damaged musical instruments can be easily repaired, or when music programmes develop sometimes there are not enough musical instruments available.  So seeing that we could next support some of our Ethiopian Partners through replenishing musical instruments, we took the opportunity to do so whilst Makeda was already in Ethiopia at the beginning of this year.

We provided Lebeza Psychiatry Clinic and Gefersa Mental Health Rehabilitation Centre each with two big local drums, called “Kebero” in Ethiopia, which will help the staff at each setting to continue to use music with a combined total of 226 patients with mental illnesses.

Are you in Ethiopia and interested in implementing music in your care setting?

I learned during the first session to make some sounds in the group with different musical instruments. I was able to know that I could make meaningful sounds during the group session.

Training Participant from FENAID, Ethiopia 2024

If you are also in Ethiopia, and interested in learning more about using music, then please email our International Programme Manager, Makeda Mitchell, at makedamitchell@musicastherapy.org for more information on how we can support you.