Project in collaboration with Children in Need Project (Nairobi, Kenya) , Amref and Dulcimer Fondation pour la Musique

PROJECT 2009 - closed

Support for activities connected to the Juakali Drummers Musical Workshop, in partnership with Dulcimer Fondation pour la Musique, within the framework of Amref’s Dagoretti Child in Need Project (Nairobi, Kenya)

AMREF is the leading health non-governmental organisation in Africa. Established in Nairobi in 1957, it promotes and runs health projects in 14 countries in East Africa.
Founded in 1998, Amref Kenya supports the Child in Need Project for the social reintegration of street children in Nairobi through social assistance programmes and artistic initiatives, such as the Juakali Drummers Musical Workshop (launched in 2005 in Nairobi with support from Dulcimer Fondation pour la Musique).

In 2009 ALTA MANE supported the “Study Tour” by the musical group Juakali Drummers – 20 former street children from Nairobi who make their own instruments using recycled materials – to the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia (July 2009), organised by Amref Italy. The Juakali Drummers took part in the Umbria Jazz Festival as “Artists in Residence”, performing their musical show “Ngoma Mtaani” (in Swahili meaning “the rhythm from the slums”) and taking part in percussion courses at the Berklee School of Music in Perugia.