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We returned to our Partners at The Fields several months after they received their Introductory Training project, to support their continued use of music with adults with learning disabilities. Sharing successes, developing practice and troubleshooting.

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We were pleased to be able to send our Local Partners in Gisenyi, Rwanda a selection of new instruments to compliment the ones they already had in support of their continued use of music.

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The second delivery of this training course, delivered via our Distance Learning Model, run in partnership with Musicians Without Borders. The course comprises a series of 7 monthly tutorials and written assignments, participation in an Intensive Study Weekend – hosted by Sounds of Palestine – and a supervised Practical Assignment, al of which equip participating activity leaders and social workers to use music in their work with children in the region.

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This field project was in response to local request and enabled 11 practitioners from these two settings and our other partner setting Public School #200 to access a Training for Trainers staff from all three settings leaving them enthusiastic and equipped to begin designing their own training programmes.

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We returned to our partners at Patashala School and the ARMS Centre for children and adults with autism (Hyderabad), to support their developing use of music. Sharing successes, developing practice and troubleshooting.

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In response to local request, we returned to our Local Trainers in Cyangugu to provide some additional training and support, and to share with them the Research Summary they had told us would be helpful to them in securing strategic support for the development of music therapy locally.

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In 2015 we launched the Tubakunde Exchange Programme, designed to enable members of the Tubakunde Network – a group of organisations working with people with disabilities across Rwanda – to visit our Local Partners in Cyangugu, observe their music work, access a music therapy training DVD we have produced and receive a small starter pack of musical instruments.

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We returned to visit our Local Partners in Gisenyi who had been running their music programme for over a year. Since a follow up visit in 2015 a house for therapy and rehabilitation had been opened opposite the Ubumwe Community Centre with a room dedicated to music therapy that can be used by our Local Partners. Our visit was an opportunity to support our partners adapting their use of music, partly inluenced by national reforms of statutory care which led to the closure of the Noel de Nyundo orphanage.

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After 6 successful deliveries of our “Music for young children with disabilities” training, delivered as a Distance Learning Model, we took the decision to suspend the project for a year in order to focus on building capacity to secure its longterm future. We continued local discussions with people who may be able to help us gain locally recognised accreditation for the course and we appointed a local moderator, Monika Szabo, to help us with its delivery in the future.

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Following the conference we convened in 2015, the Universitatea din Transilvania offered to take on the leadership of this event going forward. This was the first conference they organised themselves. We encouraged the engagement of our Local Partners across Romania and attended ourselves to run workshops and give a presentation to introduce the Research Summary we were prompted to compile following local request at the conference in 2015.

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