Projects - Trainings - Initiation workshops
Music Fund strives for the independence of its partners through the training of technicians. Today, they all need support in order to provide suitable music education. There is a huge shortage of professional restorers at local level, and those that are there are often too costly to employ by the local music schools.
 
This is why a number of specialist craftsmen have been brought in to set up ateliers for the restoration, tuning and building of musical instruments in the local music schools. It is a unique opportunity for Music Fund to realise a ‘capacity building' project that will hugely benefit music education. In this way, Music Fund not only provides musical instruments, but also the know-how needed to tune and repair them.
 
The initiation workshops are organized once a year in Maputo (Mozambique), Kinshasa (Congo), Ramallah and Nablus (Palestine). The specialist restorers give a 10-day initiation course to a group of young people interested in this craft. They are given a comprehensive overview of the work of a musical instrument restorer.
 
Camera teams filmed workshops in Ramallah and Nablus (TF1) and Kinshasa (Reuters/RTBF).

 

Initiation workshops


The Pictures
Don't miss the photo albums of the initiation workshops given in Maputo, Ramallah et Kinshasa.