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Our Musical Ambassador, Dilkhwaz Ahmed, plans to return to Northern Iraq in May, 2018, to work with the surviving Yazidi women.We need to fund-raise now to pay her expenses! Toward the end of 2016, Musical Ambassadors of Peace sent 40 drums with our Musical
Ambassador to Iraqi Kurdistan to provide healing energy for Yazidi women recently liberated from 2 years of enforced sexual slavery under ISIL.
She plans to return this spring. Please help us support her in this valuable
work!
The San Diego Union-Tribune is covering our healing work for Iraqi, Syrian and Afghani refugees in Southern California! The Featured Video highlights musical
ambassador Christine Stevens, MSW, MT-BC, founder of UpBeat Drum Circles in
Encinitas, CA.
"About thirty refugee women sat in a circle at a church in El Cajon on a recent Monday morning, thrumming the pulse of a heartbeat on hand drums and with shakers. Under the
guidance of Ari Honarvar, they played first for a member of one of the organizations involved in the drum circle who had recently had surgery. Then, Honarvar told them to play for women in Syria who were suffering from escalations in violence there. The thrumming became loud throbs...."
Yes! Magazine Amid Travel Ban, Refugee Women Cope With Trauma and Stress Through Drum
Circles
Check out our article in Yes! Magazine, also covering our work in El Cajon!
"The drum sessions create an atmosphere of belonging and put us in rhythm with each other. The drums become our voice. Studies have shown that recreational music-making in general and group drumming in particular can
decrease stress and change the genomic stress marker. Drumming has the "therapeutic potential" to relax tension and soothe emotional wounds."
Help us to continue to support Ari
and our other Musical Ambassadors who are working with Iraqi, Syrian and Afghani refugees in Southern California!
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Musical Ambassadors of Peace
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If you haven't seen the beautiful new video for our gofundme campaign you can check it out below. It was artfully done by our friends at Lifted Film!
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Our Musical Ambassadors have been traveling and learning to perform in traditional musical styles from cultures which are sometimes hidden from view
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It's amazing how the music and dance can heal the soul!
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