Art & Creative Expression
Brass music lessons, and performances for a wider audience
Mutyaba Emmanuel teaches brass music to underserved children, along with environmental conservation and digital awareness skills, and the children show what they have learned through performances.
The children perform. Through performances they show their skills to a wider audience, and Mutyaba Emmanuel says that exposure creates opportunities for them "like education support, useful connections and more."
The performances come out of a music program. Mutyaba, who is based in Mbarara, teaches brass music to underserved children. The teaching also takes in environmental conservation and digital awareness skills, integrated with life skills like self expression.
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Mutyaba Emmanuel
"I care so much because these children lack safe space and platforms to express and develop their abilities," Mutyaba says. The children also face not being recognized. That, he says, minimizes their confidence and their sense that they can contribute.
A safe space where children can learn together, he says, helps them recover from the trauma of being isolated, of poverty and of being out of school. It keeps them safe from bad peer groups and from practices like drug abuse and early marriages.
It works through "learning together, sharing moments with new friends." That is where the children learn life skills like confidence, self expression, leadership and discipline.
Instruments are short. The program has only a few available, and the number of children is larger.
Mutyaba says the work equips the children with self reliant skills and with opportunities "which bring back hope for a better future."