About Música Para Salvar Vidas
Música Para Salvar Vidas (Music to Save Lives) is helping orphaned children of Uganda grow and learn through music and dance in order to find their futures within their country. Our principal objective is to restore human dignity and create a future for the children that we take in, all of whom have suffered numerous abuses and abandonment in the past. We are there to teach them self-worth, responsibility, and community.
Music and dance play a major role in the project, both for their therapeutic nature that helps the children to build confidence and learn discipline, but also to bring out the unique talents of each child and help them find joy in the rhythms of their culture. The most talented in the orphanage can even find their future in music. In fact, six of the eldest have already succeeded in creating a professional musical group, Aba Taano.
Our mission is also unique in that we support all children of the orphanage as they move on to become independent adults. We know that to truly change lives, our support can’t stop at the doors of house where they’ve been raised. They need to be able to create a life for themselves as adults within Uganda and we are there to help them get started, whether they want to become professional musicians, nurses, hair stylists, car mechanics or entrepreneurs.
Música Para Salvar Vidas is a non-profit organization based and legally registered in Madrid, Spain and Kampala, Uganda.
Spanish registration: Our registration number in the National Register of Associations i584233 and our CIF (National Identification Number) is G84097922.
Ugandan registration: Ministry of the Interior registration number S 5914/7292, P.O.Box. 7834.
Why do I like this project
I like this project because it gives me energy. In Africa there is a lot of energy. It is not always employed that well, but there is energy, there is strength, there is will power and hope, there is enthusiasm and love. And we miss all this nowadays in Europe. In Africa you find people like Nelson Mandela, a superior being, whom with just his own determination and sacrifice, has been able to change the face of a country. You can find people like Sarah from Nigeria, who managed to survive the crossing of the desert of Niger (by foot!), Algeria, and part of Libya, to end up reaching Spain. You find people like Mummy ¨Florence, an incredible woman of a Ugandan village, leading a group of women who had been abandoned with their kids, with no money, no food, and capable of creating a solidarity fund to help them go forward. And there are people like our kids, who give us such joy, love and hope every day, kids who had nothing and no future in view of the conditions they were in and can now live in their country thanks to this project. All this, gives us the strength to keep on.
Elisabeth Michot de Jowers
(President of Música para Salvar Vidas)
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