By Sara | Co-founder
Hello Everyone,
I am sending you a quick update today on our music program in Vietnam. As many of you know we were able to finally travel over to Vietnam with a few volunteers to work directly with our teachers and staff this summer, instead of on zoom! Our programs have been running so smoothly despite the Covid disruptions, and we even have more kids in our programs than ever.
As you may remember from our last update, we received a donation of Berringer synthesizers from a European company called, Music Tribe in early 2021, but we had no teacher who knew how to use them in Vietnam. Being so lucky as we are to have very committed volunteers, one of our long-time volunteers, Rozanne, who planned to travel with us, started learning how to use the synthesizers while back at home in the states, and created an introductory crash course for our students. She is amazing and spent hours preparing the class so that when we got to Vietnam, she could set up the synthesizers, teach the kids for a few days, and send them off with their own synthesizers to practice at home. Check out the photos! The students really had fun time learning.
Also, while in Vietnam for three weeks, Rozanne taught all our violin and cello students a number of new orchestra pieces. At the end of our trip, they put on a great little concert for us, and all the other students. Some of these students have been with us for five years or more, and all of them are just so committed to learning their instruments. They are all so talented, and thanks to all of you, continue to take classes from our two music teachers year round two days a week. Also, thanks to your support, we just hired one of our part time teachers to work full time, so that he can teach more kids music!
I hope that everyone had a great summer, we can’t believe were into the fall already and heading to 2023! Thank you again everyone for your amazing support of our small organization, it means a great deal to all of us.
Thank you,
Sara and the Rock-Paper-Scissor’s Team
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