Juan Gerardo Ayala “Liqui” is from Capapegua, a small farm town, two hours away from Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay. Liqui’s mom works as a maid in Asuncion and his dad is a driver. Liqui was able to learn the flute thanks to Szaran’s free music program that reaches children of low-income families in remote towns.Liqui is the flutist of [...]
The Hilde Back Education Fund (HBEF) continues to keep students in school, where they are not only taught vital life skills, but also the importance of psychological and social motivation. Hannah Waruingi is the Finance Officer at the Hilde Back Education Fund. Hannah pursued a Bachelor’s Degree in International Business Administration, Finance option at the United States International University in [...]
Healing Sounds‘ orchestra and its accompanying music program have started a construction workshop in the forgotten reaches of rural Paraguay which will last 9 months. At these workshops, street kids learn how to build instruments made out of trash, and then are taught by the kids already in the orchestra to play their unique and personal instruments. As the lives [...]
Slater from An Inconvenient Youth visited Mali Bickley’s 5th grade class to screen some excerpts from AIY. Two months later this class resolved to produce their own environmental short film called “Commit to our Earth.” Remembering some advice Slater had given them, that “Sometimes it doesn’t work out the first time,” they worked their way through technical difficulties, learned to [...]
Renato lives in the outskirts of the city of Mindelo on Sao Vincente island off the coast of West Africa: a marginalized community struggling for daily subsistence. Renato dreamed of being a performing artist and working in theater. Life was hard for Renato and he was planning on giving up this dream due to the lack of opportunities and the [...]
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