News - Projects

Our work in Rwanda started back in 2010, when our partner Audace was one of a number of local practitioners took part in our introductory training project. Since then, Audace continued to run music sessions with children with disabilities at the Urugwiro Centre... Read on

'The Newsletter is great! Useful feedback in a format that works well for busy practitioners.' - Ali McKenzie, Early Years Lead at Waterways Nursery ... This February we are sending out our very first Newsletter to all our Partners across the UK, from... Read on

Many of you will be familiar with the third stage of the Music as Therapy International approach: Capacity Building. This is the point at which our partners are ready to share their music skills with others, and to further promote or develop the way music is being... Read on

Since the delivery of our first project in Georgia in 2011, we have been supporting our Local Partners with their music programmes and it has been fantastic to know that after 6 years, our Local Partner Teona Kacheishvili established the first Music Therapy Centre... Read on

Music therapists are well-placed and well-trained to ensure people get the musical intervention, activity or opportunity that is the best fit for them along the whole dementia journey. This may include music therapy sessions, singing sessions, such as Singing... Read on

Last Monday, Music Therapist Susanna Bajali visited Dell Farm, where the first UK introductory training project of the year is currently taking place. Susanna and Alexia met some of the young people who are taking part in the projects, and some of the 8 staff... Read on

It is always exciting in January, when we welcome our next group of students onto the Distance Learning Programme we run in Romania. The course is designed to equip people already working with young children with disabilities, with the theoretical understanding... Read on

This January we are excited to share our Sustainability Programme Review – which ties together our learning from the series of Support Visits delivered over the last year. Since we launched our pilot UK programme ‘Bringing it All Back Home’ we forecast that... Read on

Last night's Trustees' Meeting marked the end of an era here at Music as Therapy International: We bid farewell to the last of our founding Trustees, Rev. Patsy Kettle, who is retiring after 20 years on our Board. Patsy's compassion, wisdom and guidance... Read on

Back in 2012, we responded to a request from the Evangelical Lutheran Schools to deliver introductory training to staff working in 3 of their schools in the towns of Beit Sahour, Bethlehem and Ramallah in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.  Social Worker Samar... Read on