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These child soldiers were abducted and held prisoner by the Mai Mai in the Democratic Republic of Congo where they were forced to commit atrocities as part of their training.
Having been freed subsequent to a surrender of weapons by one of the Mai Mai groups, these liberated child soldiers are now entering their adolescent years in the refugee camps in Uganda where Musical Ambassadors of Peace is doing its healing work on their behalf. Only one of these four children has a surviving parent. These interviews were conducted by our Musical Ambassador, Abaho Gift Conrad, in the mutually intelligible Kirundi dialect of the Kinyarwanda language which is spoken in
Rwanda, the North and South Kivu provinces of DR Congo, Burundi and in parts of southern Uganda.
Watch Interviews With Four Children now Freed from having to fight on behalf of their Congolese abductors: Wamahoro Fiye, Numucunzi Evaress, Ngoyi Freddie and Byabatware Frank with an additional two videos featuring more complete versions of their Tribal Dances -- all now on our Youtube channel.
Ari Honarvar, our Musical Ambassador from Iran, was invited on CBS Ch8 10:00 news to share her wisdom with regard to the Haitian refugees gathered at the US-Mexico border.
Meanwhile Ari’s healing dance sessions continue in the Tijuana shelter while asylum-seekers in Mexicali await initiation of our programs.
Thank you from Musical Ambassadors of Peace for your ongoing support!
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Number is: 26-0070648
Board Members
President: Pete Jacobs
Vice President: David Hinojosa
Secretary Treasurer: Patricia Irby
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Mission Statement:
We train and fund musical ambassadors who travel the world to build cross-cultural bridges, honor and preserve indigenous musical traditions and help heal those traumatized by war.
We believe:
1) People who have learned and sung each others’ popular love songs together are less likely to war with one another than those who have not.
World Music Cross-Cultural Celebration and Bridge-Building.
We have learned to perform musical styles of Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Peru, Greece, Turkey, Tadjikstan, Mexico.
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