The Playing For Change Foundation has been working in Rwanda since 2011 using traditional and modern music, as well as sports as tools for positive change and education.

The Ubuntu Music Program in the capital of Kigali targets at-risk youth risk, principally in the community of Nyakabanda. Traditional drumming, dance, vocals, guitar, as well as sports are offered for free to over 400 weekly children and teenagers. Cultural activities for youth from the communities where the Ubuntu Music Program operates are not otherwise accessible.

“Ubuntu” itself means “humanity towards others,” and the Ubuntu philosophy can be summed up as “I am because we are” and is based on the idea that there is a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity.

 

Masaka & Kigali, Rwanda
400 students

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Rwanda is a landlocked country in East-Central Africa with 12,5 million inhabitants. The economy has been growing over the last decades and access to education and healthcare have soared. Kinyarwanda is the language spoken by almost the entire population of the country and the official language alongside with English, French and Swahili.

Located in the south western part of Kigali, Nyakabanda is a sector with over 25,000 inhabitants and a young population, with 28% under 15 and and only 1.9% older than 64.

 

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"A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed."

Desmond Tutu

 

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