continuing collaboration with Al Kamandjati, Ramallah

Our partner in Ramallah, the music school of Al Kamandjati, which was only founded three years ago, has developed rapidly with projects in Ramallah, Jenin a.o. cities of the Westbank. Ramzi Abu-Radwan, the school's artistic director, is very succesful in convincing sponsors to support their projects, and they deserve this succes more than 100%. It is such a pleasure for us as well to be able to develop projects for this school, as they almost all give very concrete results. Together we decided that Music Fund will soon start a new project with Al Kamandjati, focussing our interventions on the wind instruments of the school, by donating more instruments (especially trumpets, trombones and oboes), but also by sending instrument 'doctors' Joris Buysse (B) and Pierre Helou (F) the coming months to Ramallah to work on the instruments already available, as well as giving initiation-workshops to those interested. We hope to then find talented persons to whom we could offer an internship in Joris' atelier in Belgium. © Pierre Helou teaching repair techniques of wind instruments at the Institut National des Arts (INA), our partner-school in Kinshasa