List of activities

In response to local request, we put together a Training DVD as a culturally meaningful way to introduce the concept of music therapy and some of the key principles to a wider audience of people working with children and adults with special needs in Rwanda, as well as being a resource to consolidate our existing rwandan Partners’ understanding of how they are currently using music.

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We provided consultancy and financial support to an independent music therapist, Tsvia Horesh, enabling her to deliver a 10-day Introductory Training course to Burmese teachers interested to develop skills to use music to help children with disabilities in a number of different settings. The training was hosted by the Yangon School for the Blind and the Eden Center for Disabled Children.

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A 6-week introductory training project shared across three schools run by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land. Teachers and social workers in the schools in Ramallah, Bethlehem and Beit Sahour were interested to learn how they could use music to support the social and emotional needs of the children who attended the schools.

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The 2nd delivery of our Interactive Music-Making structured training for early years practitioners in London. Accredited by the University of Greenwich and delivered in partnershp with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, the course comprised a series of 12 weekly seminars, a practical assignment and a written assignment. The course was shortlisted for an Advancing Healthcare Award, in the category “Achieving Excellence in Training and Development”

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We returned to spend time with our partners at Public School No. 200 in Tbilisi, to support their continued use of music following our introductory training the previous year. Sharing successes, developing practice and troubleshooting.

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We returned to spend time with our partners at Ngwino Nawe (since renamed The Alivera Centre) and Nkanka (since re-named Urugwiro Centre) in Cyangugu, to support their continued use of music following our introductory training the previous year. Sharing successes, developing practice and troubleshooting.

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We created a mechanism through which our partners could apply to have their own music training courses evaluated by Music as Therapy International. Once we had approved their training content – typically in dialogue over a number of months – partners were awarded “Recommended Trainer” status.

We were delighted to award a Discretionary Grant to one of our local partners, as she set up a new setting providing support to children with disabilities in Timisoara. The grant comprised the donation of musical insturments to equip Centru Vivart and to enable our local partner to embed music sessions into the centre’s timetable.

The pilot delivery of training delivered through our Distance Learning Model, hosted by our partners from the Day Centre ‘Sf. Maria’ in Cluj – and a supervised Practical Assignment. The course was designed in response to the emergence of smaller care settings as a result of nationwide reforms of statutory care provision, and can accommodate up to 12 practitioners interested to learn how they can use music within the care and/or edication they provide for young children with disabilities in different care settings around the country.

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A 3-week project providing training to staff working with the Peruvian charity Tinkuy Peru, helping local children from disadvantaged families in Huancayo by providing free tuition and offering emotional support.

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