List of activities

A short advanced training for our partners and local trainers in Cyangugu to consolidate their learning from the Tubakunde Exchange Programme, to encourage further development of this initiative and to strengthen their confidence as trainers.

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Building on our work in Rwanda over the past 7 years, and delivered in partnership with Hope and Homes, this 6-week field project introduced staff working at a Kigarama Centre in Kigali to ways they can use music to support the children who attend this community hub.

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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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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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We visited our Local Partners in Cyangugu to support their practice and help them prepare to share their experiences at the proposed Conference and launch of the Tubakunde Exchange initiative. The participating partners were left ready to host the exchange visits later in the year.

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Launched with a Conference held for 70 Local Partners and Tubakunde Network members this initiative was 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 our partners at the Noel de Nyundo Orphanage and Ubumwe Community Centre, beneficiaries of our Introductory Training Project in 2014, to share their successes, provide professional guidance and trouble shoot within a 1-week follow-up visit.

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A 6-week project, delivered in partnership with Hope and Homes and The Gallagher Trust, providing training to staff caring for children and young adults with disabiltieis at the Noel de Nyundo Orphanage and Ubumwe Community Centre in Gisenyi, near Rwanda’s border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This project had been deferred from 2013 as a result of local unrest.

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