Music & Resilience develops music resources within psycho-social, health and cultural frameworks, as a protection factor for marginalised communities such as the Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon, the displaced people in Ukraine, and others

Community music

There is no such thing as an a-musical person: Community Music places the person who is learning at the centre of the experience

Psychosocial music activities

Music workshops to stimulate nurturing interactions and positive social change that expands to the surrounding society

Palestinians
in Lebanon

The daily living conditions of the Palestinian community in Lebanon are probably the hardest in all the Palestinian diaspora

Music & Resilience is an international cooperation project created by Associazione di Promozione Sociale Prima Materia (PM, Italy).

The project was born in 2011 in collaboration with the Palestinian-Lebanese partner National Institution of Social Care and Vocational Training (NISCVT, Lebanon; Arabic name Beit Atfal Assumoud), to support and develop psycho-educational resources to protect the well-being of children and adolescents who are born, live and grow up in traumatic conditions in Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps.

In 2024 the project expanded its scope to other contexts, such as Ucraine (in collaboration with Mediterranea Saving Humans, Italy) and other refugee communities.

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December 11, 2025

M&R in Ukraine: December 2025

We have just returned from our sixth mission to Ukraine in support of the displaced population in Lviv, accompanying Mediterranea Saving Humans once again on what was their 22nd mission there, that took place from 29 November to 7 December.

It is wonderful to see how the Ukrainian refugees are still alive: finding tables laden with food waiting for us is not only a warm welcome and a testament to how important ‘being together’ is at all levels, but also how this population has not given up and succumbed to despair, but is still capable of rejoicing and sharing, of creating and sharing human warmth. • read more

August 12, 2025

M&R in Ukraine: July 2025