Stories From The Field

The girls wrote their first song today all together. I could not be more proud.
Three days ago I started teaching the girls in Kibera music.
On the first day, I think I talked too much and too fast. Lectures were hard to sit through at 14 years old, I remember. I asked for questions and answered [...]

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My story is just developing, but it started about 3 months ago when I told my good friend Paul I wanted to join him in Nairobi. What would I do there? Share my love of music with people. Hopefully, my idealized thought went, my creative side would help bring people together, or at least teach [...]

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Many months ago, a colleague of mine said “Hey Paul, since you go to Africa, you should talk to my friend, he is involved there, too”. I was then introduced to the Josef and Anne Kottler, a couple from Massachusetts, whose daughter volunteers at an orphanage / youth center in Bagamoyo called IMUMA, and they themselves have been there, and have since been committed to supporting the work that’s being done there.

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