Project Peru
In 2011, Music Therapists, Carine Ries and Andrew Darlison delivered a 3 week introductory skill-sharing project for local staff and children at the mountain school "Tinkuy Peru" in Huancayo. Although the introductory project was met with incredible enthusiasm from staff and children alike, devastatingly shortly after the project, they lost the roof to their premises. Obviously their priorities changed and the focus was to raise the required funds to make the building watertight. This obviously impacted on the staffs availablilty to develop the music programme and although we have received regular updates from Adele Bainbridge, a UK teacher working in Peru, and althought this feedback was positive we have recently discovered that due to loss of staff members who had taken part in the training they are struggling to carry on running music sessions.
Adele Bainbridge gave us some positive feedback earlier this year:
“I took all the instruments up to school and asked the teacher there if she could remember enough to do the first session today and she got really excited about it and said that she could so we went ahead and ran the first session with a group of 8 10/11 year olds and they absolutely loved it. It was really interesting to watch them and how they responded to it. They all said they really enjoyed it and would like to do it again so that's good.”
At this point our involvement in Peru is restricted due to local circumstances but we are keen to keep up regular contact with our Local Partners and will be here to help and provide assistance whenever it is needed.
