Welcome Notes BiH

Beneficiaries (2022-2024)

• 5’603 children, young adults, and adults, participated to 420 artistic and music workshops organized inside the Reception Centers set up in the Sarajevo Region, Una-Sana and Tuzla Cantons, and the Children’s Center Grbavica (Sarajevo);
• 11 Bosnian musicians participated to the Music Bus Training;
• 14 Bosnian teachers participated to the Welcome Notes Training.

In 2022-2024, Musicians Without Borders (MWB), also with Alta Mane support, has primarily focused its intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina and, in collaboration with two Bosnian cultural and arts organizations, War Childhood Museum and Superar BiH, and with Caritas BiH, has developed the following activities:

• activated 3 Music Bus Teams which, regularly and continuously, implemented 384 music workshops inside the Usivak and Blazuj TRCs (Sarajevo), the Borici and Lipa TRCs (Una-Sana), the Safe Houses Margina (Tuzla Canton) and Sarajevo, reaching 5’181 people (0-35+ years);
• organized 16 music and artistic workshops, run by Superar BiH inside the Usivak TRC and the Children’s Center Grbavica (Sarajevo), reaching 271 minors and young adults;
• organized 20 visual arts workshops, run by War Childhood Museum inside the Usivak and Blazuj TRCs, reaching 151 minors and young adults;
• organized, in pilot mode, a Rap Weekend Workshop inside the Safe House Sarajevo, reaching 5 unaccompanied minors;   
• organized, in collaboration with Superar BiH and War Childhood Museum, a training curriculum intended to 14 Bosnian teachers to train them in the use of arts-based methodologies and practices to promote the integration of minors with a migration background into educational and school contexts in BiH;
• organized a training curriculum intended to 11 Bosnian musicians, already operating in the country and in migration contexts, to guarantee the replicability and self-sustainability of the project across BiH;
• Organized 1 Follow-up Training reaching 7 Bosnian teachers, already trained in 2023.

In 2025, MWB, in collaboration with Caritas BiH, has a triple objective: i. to strengthen the music workshops inside the Usivak and Blazuj TRCs (Sarajevo), the Borici and Lipa TRCs (Una-Sana Canton) and the Safe Houses Margina (Tuzla), Sarajevo and Bihać (Una-Sana Canton); ii. organize 3 series of Rap Workshops to actively engage unaccompanied minors in the process of writing and recording a rap song; iii. permanently integrate musical activities in the BRAT Project (BRAT: Balkan Route a Welcoming Transit) and ensure, in all Reception Centers set up in BiH, regular access to music as a tool for care and psychosocial support.

Musicians Without Borders