Music Road Rwanda

Association chaired by Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and Martin Helmchen in Cooperation with Crescendo.

Music Road Rwanda was born out of the conviction that music can bring people hope and peace, and has an immense influence on every culture and society. As professional musicians who are often on the road, we feel very strongly that music can provide so much more than entertainment.Many projects have proven that musical training and the experience of coming together to make music can serve people, and especially children, as a release from a life of poverty and crime.

Rwanda is one of the most densely populated and one of the poorest countries in Africa. It is often called the “Land of 1000 Hills”.Here in this country so torn by the genocide of 1994, where so many are victims of trauma, we have seen the power of music to change lives.This is why we travel to Rwanda regularly, where we support the only music school in the country, Kigali Music School – encouraging cooperation with the Orphanages, and organizing concerts for street children, for widows, in hospitals and in churches.We also collaborate with the local Goethe-Institute to organize concerts, in order to provide the local people with an opportunity to experience classical music. At the same time, we experience African culture and music, and take the input we receive in Rwanda home with us. Thus we are creating a unique and welcomed opportunity for cultural exchange that allows us to learn from each other.

You can help

Sponsorship for an orphan is the most personal way to help.

Please contact us if you have questions regarding sponsorship or other ways to help or if you are interested in any further information. Apart from providing urgently needed financial help you can also take part actively.

Concerts

In Rwanda there was till August this year still no classical chamber music concert. By Goethe-Institute in Kigali we have given in our visit in summer two public concerts which were taken up enthusiastically. One took place at a hotel (hotel Serena) and the other in the theatrical hall of Goethe-Institute. Also furthermore concerts are planned in cooperation with Goethe-Institute.

Ways to give

We invite you to organize charity concerts to benefit “Music Road Rwanda”.
We take donations! Send us instruments, sheet music, strings or other equipment for instruments, tuners, or metronomes, etc. you no longer need.
Come with us! If you are a musician, consider traveling with us to Rwanda to teach at the music school.
Participate in our “Adopt a student” program
Spread the word! Tell others about “Music Road Rwanda”.

Here is how you can contribute

We are looking for sponsors, wanting to support orphans through a monthly payment.This way you will enable a child to attend Kigali Music School to receive musical education and to learn to play an instrument.

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