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OUR COMMUNITY IN KINONI

Posted on March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 by katodisan

MUSIC INSTRUMENTS TRAINING AT KINONI CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (CDC) UG:220

Kinoni CDC is one of the compassion centers in Mbarara where children are supported by Compassion international. Children are supported in very many fields such as education, medical care and other basic needs like food, clothing etc…Other skills are taught to children to live by in future such as weaving, tailoring, music, and farming.

Living Music Foundation partners with Kinoni CDC to extend performing music skills to their children. It was important for the center to buy some of the instruments to help the children learn as well as practice after the lessons . The instruments available are keyboard, guitars, drums and brass band instruments (trumpets, trombone, tuba etc…)

The project director and the management of Kinoni CDC wrote to Living Music Foundation to share the transformative performing music skills with the children by carrying out a one month everyday music instrument lessons.

LMF TEAM FOR THIS PROJECT

training begins

Our team arrived at the center and carried more guitars from the LMF office to support the ones at the center.

On the first day, the team inspected the available instruments and helped in cleaning them while generally teaching the children on how to keep and maintain clean instruments.

The next day students were given opportunities to choose the instruments of their choice and were subjected to tests to establish who will remain in a particular class for the next month. In every class, instruments were shared. For example, in the drum class, chairs were used to learn the beats and snare skills.

general Notes

The children were very good and disciplined. Therefore, it was easy and fun teaching them. There were no cases of indiscipline sited.
The time and resources were very small to cover well and exhaust the details of every lesson. There in case of an opportunity, the children should be given chances to train more and practice to apply what they have learnt.
As we are aware that not all children can grab things at the same level, some of the children need to be given more time to practice and perhaps needed more time to learn. However, they can be good with time and practice.
We recommend that the project sets up opportunities like praise and worship moments and allow the children try out their skills. In addition, please be patient with the small mistakes they are still doing.

We are always very grateful at Living Music Foundation whenever we are given an opportunity to share our performing music skills with children. Sharing performing music skills is our Joy and we hope the skills shared, will one day help to transform lives of these children.

the students

THE KEYBOARD/PIANO CLASS FINALISTS

THE DRUM CLASS FINALISTS

THE GUITAR CLASS FINALISTS

More pictures of the training in other days

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ST. PAUL’S KINDERGATEN AND PRIMARY SCHOOL – LYANTONDE

Posted on February 18, 2019March 8, 2019 by katodisan

The Vessels band was hired to perform at a function in Lyantonde by a local businessman who had discovered them while in Mbarara. Part of the band’s purpose is to speak about the Living Music Foundation during the performances.

Before Babrah’s performance, she introduced herself and talked about how music transformed her life, later asking the audience to embrace and encourage their children to learn music skills.

The Director of St. Paul’s Kindergarten and Primary School was in the audience; she was excited by the performance and interested in the role of LMF, so she invited LMF to her school.

The School

St. Paul’s Kindergarten and Primary School is both a day and boarding school of all religious sects, but it is largely a Catholic school. The Director is a current member of Parliament for the area.

Why Invite the Living Music Foundation team?

The school was planning to have a Parents’ Day at the end of the year. As is normal, the children are supposed to make presentations in poetry, music, dance, and drama. However, the teachers were unable to provide presentation material for the kids.

After seeing and learning about LMF, the Director’s prayers were answered. She asked the LMF to compose some music and help train the children so they would be able to perform on time. Time was short (only one week) but it got done!

The Training

Disan composed the songs. Patience and Babrah went to the school to train pupils. The director provided all the meals, transport, and accommodation for the LMF team.

**Patience training the children how to use microphones in one of the sessions**

Both Babra and Patience spent three days at the school helping pupils learn new songs. The rest of the LMF team (instrumentalists) joined Patience and Babrah to add instrument backing to the songs.

**The band adding instrumentals to the songs**

**Children leading their own songs after learning them**

The Parents’ Day

Living Music Foundation’s work was considered complete after having kids present their new songs to attendees on Parents’ Day. The Foundation concentrated on the music training and there were other activities that kids learned for presentation. The band helped by playing instruments as the kids sang and danced during their presentations.

Parents were happy and asking that their kids be trained always, as quoted from one of the speeches made.

**Pupils in a presentation backed by the LMF team**

Parents happy with the pupils’ performance

What happened after?

The director of the school officially declared a partnership with LMF in music training and was approved by the parents present.

She paid all the costs incurred by the LMF team and paid them in full.

The parents promised to support the director of the school in buying musical instruments so their children could easily learn at school.

It was a day well spent. It was great to see the joy of the director, parents, and the children all together.

More at St. Paul’s

**Some of the children got a chance to try out instruments during the training sessions**

**Patience in a jolly moment with the children after a training session**

**The Director of the school looks on during performances**

**The Muslim children in a special presentation**

On the same day, the kindergarteners graduated to primary school

A visit to Kinoni Child Development Center (CDC)

Posted on February 13, 2019March 8, 2019 by katodisan

Child Development Centers (CDCs) are projects run by compassionate international volunteers in partnership with churches in Uganda to support the neediest of needy children in different communities. The support is usually in basic necessities—education, meals at home, and clothing, among others.

**Some of the children having breakfast at the center**

At the invitation of the Project Director, Living Music Foundation went to meet and talk to kids at the Kinoni Child Development Center about how music can help transform lives. She saw it as a good opportunity; these kids are in similar situations to most of the past LMF staff members who have also been transformed through music.

Once in a while, the kids gather at the Center for meals, medical checks, and to receive support through books, clothes, and many other services.

The project usually sets up Center days where kids come together and participate in several activities such as agriculture, music, sports, and many others!

25th January 2019 was set apart for music.

Living Music Foundation and the Children

**Disan Kato sharing a moment with some of the kids**

The Director of LMF, Disan Kato, took time to speak to the children and encouraged them to be good to those supporting and teaching them. He used examples of the team he went with—Jean, Babrah, and Patience. They later taught the kids some songs, sang with them, and performed for them.

**Disan talking to the children about the transformative power of music**

**Nyamwija Patience teaching the kids how to sing on the microphones**

Performances of LMF and the Children

Six-year-old Joy Brier performing for fellow children

The day was dedicated to music and the kids were given the opportunity to show their talents in music. They were split into several performing groups.