The experimental Research-Action “ABF Music Curriculum A-R Project” aims to initiate a process of renewal of the educational approach in the formal contexts of education and instruction from 3 to 14 years of age through an action of research and reflection on the resources offered by the languages of music within the school curriculum.
In a context such as Haiti, the role played by school becomes fundamental: safe places where children can “take refuge” from the dangers of rampant crime and benefit from an education which offers potential emancipation for them and the community itself.
The programme aims at enhancing the psychosocial support of disadvantaged children who live in vulnerable regions. Through the creation of regional choirs and other educational activities, ABF aims at offering empowerment opportunities to participants and to their communities, by using music as a tool to strengthen their skills, to stimulate their creativity, to promote collaboration and to offer them more chances of success in life.
Providing basic necessities is the first form of aid for people fleeing war and deprivation. ABF facilitated access to initial reception services, such as access to healthcare, education and language skills, facilitates and speeds up inclusion within a social community or work context for the individuals hosted in the communities of the Marches schools, immediately improving the state of well-being of refugees and generating opportunities for acquiring new skills for the host community as well.
Housing was provided for all the families accommodated in the ABF school communities in The Marches.
Through the EDU project, the Andrea Bocelli foundation has achieved the construction of 3 Guest Houses to host staff, volunteers and supporters of the ABF and Fondation St. Luc team during missions and stays on location.
After inaugurating the new “E. De Amicis” school complex, the Andrea Bocelli Foundation opened the first ABF Summer Camp in the facility, in order to immediately make it a place for meeting, research and discovery, where children – but also adults, teachers and parents – were able to share the pleasure of learning as a time for mutual growth, opportunity for self-care, care for the other people and for what surrounds us.
Thanks to the joint contribution of the Andrea Bocelli Foundation and the Community Jameel, the London Royal College of Music (RCM) – one of the most prestigious conservatories in the world – will be able to launch a new scholarship for singers, starting from the 2020/2021 academic year.
Being perfectly aware that art, and music in particular, have the ability to convey concepts such as beauty and self-expression, the Foundation has decided to inaugurate the “Voices of Haiti” project, aiming to allow the most talented students of the Fondation St. Luc schools to express their artistic qualities in the field of singing.
Since 2013, the Foundation has supported a tanker truck that distributes water in the slums of Cité Soleil every day, three times a day, 6 days a week. Having ascertained the effectiveness and the real need for the project, since 2014 the Foundation has doubled its commitment with a second truck.
The project will cover all students from 2 to 24 years, divided by category of age and classes and will cover also the teachers and other people who work in ABF schools and in the communities.