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1180 youngsters of Campos dos Goytacazes go everyday after school to their music classes.
Music has a function much larger than the artistic one
It can unite people, it can promote the well-being of people in favor of a common goal
(...) teamwork, it teaches solidarity
Music, in my point of view, is one of the greatest tools for social inclusion
We are on this Project since 1998
By the time the orchestras started their activities, here in Campos, there weren’t any violins in the city.
Through a contact with Venezuela, through the late maestro Davi Machado
the first Project of social inclusion through music in Brazil was created
bound with the Venezuelan Project, a success in the whole world.
We got the qualification to develop this work.
When the children have the first contact with music
they start developing different skills,
like the cultural enrichment, there is a change in their motor skills...
in their logical reasoning, there is an elevation of their self-esteem (...)
all of this taught them to like the work of the NGO.
I really like the school because it gives us joy.
Today I am here thanks to these people, thanks to the family of the “Orquestrando a Vida” NGO.
All of the people I know who have children who study here speak wonders of it,
and those who haven’t are dying to know how to get a place.
I could never be able to afford music education to my son.
The NGO offers classes from Monday to Friday, at mornings, afternoons and at nights.
Just because it is free of charge it does not mean that it has to be done poorly.
all this quality stimulates us to have discipline.
The orchestra tries to make the students go beyond their normal boundaries
Forcing us, as human beings, to always grow, to outdo ourselves
I used to spend all afternoon watching television...
I like the orchestra because it took me out of the street.
I used to stay on the street until late.
I used to have a scholarship here, like all of the children who take part in the Project.
and to see these poor children, that sometimes don’t even have food at home, to come here and feed themselves from music...
It is almost unbelievable, the strength that a child can have when it has a dream.
My dream is to own an instrument so I can practice at home.
My dream is to become a violin teacher.
My dream is to become a fiddler.
I want to become just like my teachers.
I wanted to have a tube that was my own.
My biggest dream is to put a branch of the NGO
in every poor community of the city of Campos.
Just to be able to see 800, 1000 children away from the streets
Away from the turmoil, from the violence of the streets
From the idleness, to bring them inside a school,
to teach them an art that could become a job tomorrow,
is already sufficient.