School members poor and homeless children
Culture is a balm in hard times to people who have been through hardships, they say. This seems to be the opinion of the leaders of the music Academy in Afghanistan, who try through music to ease or at least ease the pain of young children, who witnessed a fierce war.
The notes follow one another, in the two-story building in the center of Kabul and the classical piano blends perfectly with the violins and flute. Young students are taught music, in the hope as the teachers say, to forget the gruesome details of the war they lived through and the poverty they endure.
The head of the National Music Institute of Afghanistan, Ahmad Sarmast, in an interview with the Reuters agency he said, among other things, that "we are committed to building the lives of these troubled children through music, given its healing power."
School counts 140 students, with most members being orphans and homeless children, which according to Ahmad, they are passionate about music.
"This country is thirsty for music and art in general, as for the change", concluded the teacher. While then he underlined that the college also gives scholarships to schools abroad, such as Britain and Denmark, which already finance the school.
Source : protothema.gr