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M&R, May 2015, Beirut
We have so many friends in Lebanon now. We're always so happy to return and to continue our work with Beit Atfal Assumoud and the Palestinian refugee community. We've just attended Assumoud's 9th Annual Conference, and conducted follow-up meetings for project planning. And we have had the great pleasure of [...]
with our Syrian friends again …
On 4th and 5th May, we continued our project with Sonbola Education initiative, in the Syrian refugees camps in Marej, (Chtaura, Bekaa valley, Lebanon), throught the field-visit of trainer Deborah Parker, to run workshops for the children and supervise their teachers. Read full report here Report sv and [...]
Continuing support for the Syrian refugees in Lebanon …
The project for psychosocial music training for educators of Syrian refugee children in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon, is continuing, with a supervision and follow-up visit by Deborah Parker to the team coordinated by Sonbola Education Initiative. Click here for the full report: Report 30-31 jan 2015
Report of our January visit to Beirut
Music and Resilience has provided a new training for the 'Beit Atfal Assumoud' trainee team in Beirut, guided by the Istanbul trained German music therapist Herbert Walter. In addition, important meetings were held to plan future strategies for the project's developments. Click here for the full report: M&R report 24th [...]
Press Release, Montespertoli, 12th January 2015
“Music and Resilience” Orientation for the 2nd year of International Cooperation On Friday 9th January 2015 in the Town hall, Montespertoli, the guidelines for the 2nd year of Prima Materia’s project “Music and Resilience” were illustrated to the public, who were able to witness how international cooperation enriches the proponent [...]
New instruments received!
Three new percussion instruments (two congas and a cajon) just arrived to our headquarter to be sent to Lebanon. They were donated by a musician from Turin thanks to the collaboration with the #faigirarelacultura initiative by Ananse Communication.
Orientation seminars in Tuscany
Prima Materia promotes two public events in collaboration with partners in the project “Music and Resilience” – Region of Tuscany, Province of Florence, Municipality of Montespertoli, the Italo-Palestinian friendship Association and Assopace Palestina: Thursday, 8th January, Siena; Friday, 9th January, Montespertoli. Music & Resilience – Seminars 8th, 9th Jan (PDF [...]
Final Report – November 2014
Here is the final documentation about Deborah's last mission in Lebanon. Report training november 2014
Letter from the Bekaa valley
23rd November 2014 Dear all, here I am, at the end of my week in Marej, a small town in West Bekaa, overcome by this new chapter of our projects in Lebanon, this time in support of the Syrian refugees. We are 20 km from the Syrian border, and about [...]
Psycho-social music training in support of Syrian refugees
We have just completed the first phase of our new project in support of the Syrian refugee population of Lebanon, in collaboration with Sonbola Education Initiative (Lebanon) and Nai Foundation (Austria). Deborah Parker spent a week in the Sonbola education centre in Marej, (a small locality near Chtaura in the [...]
Solidarity for Lebanon’s young Syrian refugees
Prima Materia is beginning a new project in support of the young Syrian refugee population based in Lebanon, in partnership with SONBOLA, a registered educational initiative under the French Umbrella NGO CODSSY in France, which works on providing quality education and interactive learning for Syrian refugee children in Bekaa while [...]
The Annual Report is online!
We have just published the summary of our last year of activity in the refugee camps in Lebanon. The document includes data about the results we have achieved, the preliminary budget and possible developments of the project in the future. M&R, annual report, 2013-14
