Entendarte

CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PROTECTION

Through a non-formal pedagogical approach that employs music therapy and art therapy, the project aims to stimulate children’s and young people’s learning processes, improve memory, autonomy, expression skills and spontaneity.

HOW IT ALL BEGAN

Entendarte was born in 2017 in Mozambique as a natural continuation of the “Armoniosamente” project launched by Antoniano, an Italian partner organisation of AGAPE. The results of the first intervention have completely exceeded expectations, especially in terms of the interest that music therapy, and art therapy in broad terms, have aroused in communities, institutions and the Mozambican public in general. The young people who received training in music therapy and art therapy during the 18 months of the project were fascinated by the discipline and techniques and decided to continue studying them.

Activities

LABORATORIES AND ACTIVITIES OF MUSIC THERAPY, THEATRE THERAPY AND ART THERAPY

The activities are of two types, preventive and therapeutic, and are carried out by volunteers at our partners’ facilities, working with children and young people in small groups of 8-10 people or individually. An increasing number of facilities ask us to collaborate, a sign that the results are visible to the community.

TRAINING AND SUPERVISION IN MUSIC AND ART THERAPY

First Antoniano’s professionals and then international volunteers brought many different skills and disciplines to Mozambique, from music to theatre, from art to circus. Each time, the aim is to pass them on to local professionals, so that they can increase their numbers and carry them on independently.

COMMUNITY AWARENESS

Through the techniques of Theatre of the Oppressed, we aim to provide tools for personal, social and political change to all those who find themselves in situations of oppression. It is particularly effective in addressing topics that are often still taboo or difficult to deal with, such as early marriage, the role of women or human trafficking.

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Impact

The project aims to complement formal education with non-formal approach activities, enabling children and young people to develop and strengthen their creativity and spontaneity, to improve their self-confidence and their relationship with the outside world, and to provide skills that facilitate self-expression and communication and stimulate the learning of reading and writing.

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Partners

ACCD Machaka
A.V.I.M.A.S.
Casa Esperança de Katembe
Centro De Reabilitação Psicossocial Das Mahotas (CRPS)
Diapason Progetti Musicali
Escola Especial 1
Escola Especial 2
Escola Nacional de Música
Hlayiseka
Khensany
PASSI Società Cooperativa
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JOIN THIS PROJECT!

You can make a donation to support the music therapists in their work with children and young people, or, if you have artistic skills you can participate as a volunteer.

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