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Khoussa Kora Balla | Ecole de Musique de Kirina
Student and teachers performance, Mali

Khoussa Kora Balla | Ecole de Musique de Kirina

Damon Albarn visits our school in Mali

Damon Albarn visits our school in Mali

A huge Thank You from Mali

A huge Thank You from Mali

Balafon Performance | Kirina, Mali

Balafon Performance | Kirina, Mali

Ecole de Musique de Kirina celebrates International Jazz Day

Ecole de Musique de Kirina celebrates International Jazz Day

A Female Guitarist In Mali??

A Female Guitarist In Mali??

If This Doesn’t Make You Want To Learn The Kora, What Will?

If This Doesn’t Make You Want To Learn The Kora, What Will?

A DOLLAR FOR A DREAM

A DOLLAR FOR A DREAM

Saïba Diabaté
Kora Teacher, Mali

Saïba Diabaté

A Dance class in Mali: 360° video

A Dance class in Mali: 360° video

Discover our Music School in Mali

Discover our Music School in Mali

Kora
Instruments we teach: Mali

Kora

Interview with Toumani Diabaté
Bamako, Mali

Interview with Toumani Diabaté

Bagoré Sissoko
Sound Engineer and Editor, Mali

Bagoré Sissoko

Jean Diarrah
French Teacher, Mali

Jean Diarrah

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Access to technology is becoming a key component of the learning process for children. In many of the areas where we operate, the access to technology for the youth is limited. You can help us fulfil this need by funding a technology kit for one of our music programs. This technology kit is composed of essential recording, filming equipment destined to improve learning conditions for our students.

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The PFC Foundation has created 15 music programs across 11 countries. Each program is unique and engage communities using music as a tool for education and expression. You can fund part of the operating budget or sponsor a special project for the program or school of your choice.

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With a financial investment, an in-kind contribution, a donation to the live-auction portal or a memorial gift, we’ll bridge your generosity to a slate of year-round placements and recognition in the Playing For Change movement.

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 WHY MUSIC!

 

Science has shown that learning music benefits people on many different levels. From enhancing cognitive capacities for children, teens and adults to helping memory, literacy, creativity, self confidence and collaboration skills, the power of music has already been demonstrated by hundreds of scientific studies.

At Playing For Change Foundation, we believe the world would be a better place with more music in it.  That’s why we employ musicians and music teachers around the world to teach music, using it as a tool for education, inspiration and social change.

Music is also part of the intangible heritage of humanity and by preserving and transmitting traditional music we help new generations to understand their own culture as well as others.

“ Young children who take music lessons show different brain development and improved memory over the course of a year, compared to children who do not. “

SOURCE: Nature Neuroscience, April 2007. Dr. Laurel Trainor, Prof. of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behavior at McMaster University, 2006.

 

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Recently strong winds caused significant damage to the roof of the Tintale Village Academy where the Udayapur Music Program program holds classes.  Musical instruments, desks and more were destroyed. Yet, the roof must be repaired. Safety demands it can’t be delayed. Instruments and school property must be replaced.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Stay tuned for the Mother’s Society Hill Tribe Initiative Spring 2019

This spring a group from this collective will travel to a remote area of eastern Nepal  in order to raise awareness about sex trafficking for over 400 women.

This is only possible thanks to your good support!

Local Tintale village school teachers teach harmonium, madal and dance classes to about 25 students, with a particular focus on girl enrollment. And in nearby Katari, music notation instructor, Dhruba Kumar Ghimire, patiently instructs the children on how to play the harmonium. He is also supported by other teachers who provide drum and guitar lessons.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

 GIVING LEVELS

We are truly grateful for the support of our Playing For Change Foundation friends.

No matter how small or how large, your fully tax-deductible contribution will enable us to continue our mission of peace and positive social change through music and arts education.

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Change Believers ($1- $499)

-Our recognition for your support

Change Seekers ($500-$999)  

-Donor Recognition on Website

 Change Agents ($1,000-$2999)

-Donor Recognition on Website

-Digital Membership Badge that can be displayed on Social Media 

Change Makers ($3,000-$4,999)

-Donor Recognition on Website

-Digital Membership Badge that can be displayed on Social Media 

-Donor Spotlight Bio on our website

-Personalized video thank you from one of our staff

Game Changers  ($5,000-$9,999)

-Donor Recognition on Website

-Digital Membership Badge that can be displayed  on Social Media 

-Donor Spotlight Bio on our website

-Personalized video thank you from one of our classrooms

Transformation Society ($10,000 and above)

-Donor Recognition on Website

-Digital Membership Badge that can be displayed on Social Media

-Donor Spotlight Bio on our website

-Personalized video thank you from one of our classrooms

-Hand signed thank you letter from a student

GIVE BY CHECK OR WIRE

 

GIVE BY CHECK:

You will receive a printed tax receipt for your gift. Please let us know if you’d like us to direct your donation to a specific project or initiative. We accept international donations in the form of bank issued money orders in USD. Money orders should be made payable to the Playing For Change Foundation and can be mailed to the address below.

Please make checks payable to:

Playing For Change Foundation,

171 Pier Avenue, #271
Santa Monica, CA 90405 – USA

 

GIVE BY WIRE:

We are fortunate to have a global community supporting the Playing For Change Foundation.  Many people choose to give by electronic wire transfer for regular or stand alone donations.

If you live outside of the United States or would prefer to send funds directly from your bank account, you can donate via wire transfer.

Please contact accounting@playingforchange.org or call +1-310-558-2900 if you are interested in giving through a wire and we will send you the necessary information. 

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Damon Albarn (born 23 March 1968) is an English singer-songwriter and record producer who has been involved in many high profile projects and groups throughout his career. He is perhaps best known internationally for his current role as the frontman and songwriter of Gorillaz, whose first two studio albums had sold more than 20 million copies together by 2007. Albarn also serves as the frontman and primary songwriter of Britpop band Blur, and has been in the projects The Good, the Bad & the Queen, Monkey: Journey to the West and Mali Music. Albarn was born in Whitechapel (London, UK). He grew up in Leytonstone and Aldham, Essex. He was voted the 4th greatest frontman of all time in a national 2010 Q magazine poll.

>More about Damon Albarn on Wikipedia

WHAT WE DO

 

15 music programs have been created in Bangladesh, Brazil, Ghana, Mali, Nepal, Rwanda, South Africa, Morocco, Mexico, Argentina and Thailand. Every week more than 2,000 young people attend free classes in dance, instruments, languages and musical theory, all taught by qualified local teachers.

Projects also help meet essential needs of the larger community, including the provision of aid such as food, clean water, medicine, clothes, books, school supplies, solar energy, computers, and other modern technology. Over 15,000 people have been impacted by the Foundation’s community development and empowerment efforts throughout our program regions and beyond.

Annual program evaluations reinforce the real and positive impact of music education and demonstrate change in action. When children play music together, collaboration increases and conflict is reduced. And critically important to children, particularly those who are vulnerable due to poverty, conflict, drugs, and neglect, is that learning music increases self-esteem and fosters resilience and joy.

Learning music has also been shown to increase self-esteem and foster resilience, which is critically important to children who are vulnerable due to poverty, conflict, drugs, and neglect.

GIVE BY CHECK

 

We issue charitable tax receipts for all donations.

You will receive a printed tax receipt for your gift. Please let us know if you’d like us to direct your donation to a specific project or initiative. We accept international donations in the form of bank issued money orders in USD. Money orders should be made payable to the Playing For Change Foundation and can be mailed to the address below.

Please make checks payable to:

Playing For Change Foundation,

171 Pier Avenue, #271
Santa Monica, CA 90405 – USA.

WHERE WE'RE GOING

 

In our ongoing effort to connect the world through music, our direction has been shaped by where we have been and by those who have inspired us along the way. With this in mind, we strive to:

Continue progress and foster sustainability with schools currently in development

Establish valuable partnerships and collaborate with other organizations

Expand the opportunities and resources available to communities in need

Be an access point for various forms of aid, including clean water, electricity, and medical resources

Create positive change through music education

PRINCIPLES

 

Economic Empowerment: We use local materials and labor when building, employ locals as teachers and administrative staff in our schools.

Local Leadership: Programs are led and affirmed by local village and community leaders.

Using Music to Transform Lives and Communities: Caring adults encourage discipline, joy and personal expression through music and arts programs. Programs emphasize tolerance and shared understanding as methods for solving problems.

Connecting People and Communities: Cameras and other technology empower individuals and communities to tell their own stories. Children in different countries and schools learn about and get to know peers who live in dramatically different regions and circumstances.

Dons depuis la France

 

Faites un don à la Fondation Playing For Change depuis la France au travers notre fonds de dotation.

La Fondation Playing for Change peut recevoir des dons au travers au travers du Fonds de Dotation pour le Financement et Soutien de la Fondation Playing For Change. Cet organisme à but non lucratif permet à des donateurs résidant en France de beneficier de déductions fiscales: 66% du total du don pour les particuliers dans la limite de 20% de leurs revenus et 60% du total du don pour les entreprises, dans la limite de 5 % de leur chiffre d’affaire.

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Les dons en provenance d’autres pays européens et à destination de notre Fonds de dotation peuvent également permettre de bene cier de déductions scales selon les lois du pays dans lequel réside le dona- teur.

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Your gift can make a positive difference while also helping reduce taxes you might owe. A gift of appreciated stock is a great way to accomplish both objectives.

We’re able to accept donations in the form of stock through the Depository Trust Company (DTC). For security, settlement, and reduced paperwork, electronic transfer through DTC is preferred. This can be arranged from most brokerage accounts. Please contact accounting@playingforchange.org in advance so your charitable donation can be easily tracked for tax purposes, and we can address any questions or concerns you may have.

GIVE BY WIRE

We are fortunate to have a global community supporting the Playing For Change Foundation.  Many people choose to give by electronic wire transfer for regular or stand alone donations.

If you live outside of the United States or would prefer to send funds directly from your bank account, you can donate via wire transfer.

Please contact accounting@playingforchange.org or call +1-310-558-2900 if you are interested in giving through a wire and we will send you the necessary information. 

LIFE IN THE COMMUNITY

 

Culture and environment are very intertwined here in M’hamid. The weather turns from blistering hot in the summer (reaching 130 degrees Farenheit regularly in July and August) to sandstorm season in March and April, which helps to propagate the date palm trees, the economic power in the region. Climate change is a very real presence locally, with little access to water becoming normal, and the encroachment of sand dunes onto precious farmland happening right now, working to disperse not only communities, but ancient traditions with them.

In M’hamid there is a great importance placed on the community and people moving together in groups. Whether it be families of 10 living under the same roof eating from the same central Tagine dish for their meals, or the ritual of preparing and sharing tea with whomever may be around, foreigner or local, the sense of inclusion is vital to the community. The passing down of music and poetry from generation to generation is another vital aspect of the community, as art and tradition serve as reassurances in a constantly changing world. It is the role of the youngest generation to learn from the past to bring the traditional Saharan art into future, so at to coexist with the modern.

About Gugulethu

Program Administrator Poppy Tsira talks about the community of Gugulethu

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