Who is involved in the Cateura School of Music and Life?
The new Cateura School of Music and Life is a collborative social initiative between the Saint Pio Foundation, Transformación Paraguay and the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura. The center will be a place where the orchestra can teach music to the more than 300 kids that are currently involved in their music program. The school will also be a place where the Saint Pio Foundation will be able to provide the social assistance that they currently provide in the area. Such as providing free medicine for those in need, free dental and medical checkups, weekly soup kitchen and after school programs for the kids and families of the community.
The Recycled Orchestra of Cateura
The Recycled Orchestra of Cateura is an orchestra and school of music for the kids in the Cateura community (a community built on the landfill for the city of Asuncion). The music programs that they provide help keep the kids off of the streets and out of gang trouble. It also teaches them how to be responsible and to learn certain life skills that they may otherwise not learn at home or in school. To learn more about the orchestra watch this 60 Minutes report from 2014.
The Saint Pio Foundation of Paraguay
The land for the School of Music and Life is owned by the Saint Pio Foundation, a Catholic nonprofit founded by the Capuchin friars of Paraguay. This foundation has been working in Paraguay since the 1980's and focuses principally on providing asistance to the most vulnerable: the elderly, children, women and those they are living in extreme poverty. Saint Pio will be the organization that will be opperating and financing the School of Music and Life once it is built.
Transformación Paraguay
Transformación Paraguay is a nonprofit organization located in Paraguay. Their vision is to positively impact 10% of the population through values and leadership. Since being founded in 2014, Transformación Paraguay has trained almost 200 thousand people in more than 2,000 organizations in the Roundtable method using leadership materials developed by leadership expert Dr. John C. Maxwell. In 2018 Transformación Paraguay began working with the Paraguayan Ministry of Education teaching values and leadership to kids in the public school system. This program is called ‘I Choose’ and reached more than 20,000 students 2018. Transformación Paraguay is the organization leading the fund raising and logistics for the new Cateura School of Music and Life.
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