No Child is an Island. Experiences. Children International El Sistema program Dominican Republic
No human being is codified to come into the world to be an island, but there are circumstances that could at least make someone half an island. “The fatherland is childhood,” said Baudelaire; this is true not only for poetry but also for people, who have the potential to be happy or not. One of the worst experiences a child can suffer is rejection. Very often, either consciously or unconsciously, all children tend to suffer from it, especially the kind that comes from their classmates.
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El Sistema in Children International - A Closer Look
Covering a January 2015 concert of Children International’s Youth Orchestra in Santiago de los Caballeros, an excited TV reporter named Ruth Camille Santos exclaimed, “The El Sistema project began in Venezuela in the 1970s. Here, it is only 8 months old. But it’s incredible how music has changed the lives of these underprivileged children, teaching them discipline and perseverance.”
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