Power and Confident

Community Music envisions a world where all young people achieve their full potential and shape the future with power and confidence.

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Building Creative Minds

The Community Music prepares young people to be healthy, productive, and engaged citizens...

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Platform to Connect Together

Facilitating the creation of situations where people from different artistic backgrounds can meet and share their experiences....

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Patience and Perseverance

In order to learn a musical instrument young people must develop patience and perseverance – skills which will help them later in life when they must tackle other more difficult challenges.

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Coordination

Practicing musical instruments improves hand-eye coordination. Youths develop important motor skills when playing music just as they do when playing different sports.

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Concentration

Learning a musical instrument will help an underprivileged teenager develop concentration as they must focus on a particular activity over extended periods of time.

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Self-Confidence

Music builds confidence in anybody over time. A young child grows up having the boldness to speak before people because he has spent time studying on what he will speak

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Relaxation

More and more, music therapy is being used to complement more traditional forms of medicine.

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Passion

Music brings the passion in you, it brings out the innate passion in your ward

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Background

We are The Community Music Foundation of West Africa, an organization that uses music and the arts as a tool to foster Unity, Hope, Change and Development, providing distinctive, global, musical performance and education to urban and rural youth across Nigeria and West Africa.

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Vision

With the aim of transforming and engaging the youth in our communities through the use of music and the arts, we believe that every young person should have the opportunity to experience the magic of music and the arts. Music has the power to build academic and social skills; unleash creativity; and develop self-confidence and self-esteem among so many other developmental skills.

Our Strategy

Music and the arts have remained one of the most viable tools in the process of attaining worthwhile human transformation over the years. It is the magnet which attracts youth to a safe place to learn and grow, away from the culture of drugs, gangs and violence which is all too prevalent on the streets of the low income urban areas we target. Our partnership with mainly public schools provide these young people, ages 13-18, with programs aimed at successful after JSS3 and SSS3 graduations, opportunities for developing job skills, and college preparation support; all of which helps build self-confidence and self-esteem that will last a lifetime.

what We Do

Music is a vehicle that attracts every teen; we create programs where they have the opportunity to experience personal, academic and social growth through the joy of music and the arts. We believe strongly that every young person should have the opportunity to learn and express themselves by making music, yet in our state schools music is in short supply.

Why Music And The Arts?

Concentration

Learning a musical instrument will help an underprivileged teenager develop concentration as they must focus on a particular activity over extended periods of time. Developing concentration in this way will also help them focus their attention on other subjects at school.

Patience and Perseverance

In order to learn a musical instrument young people must develop patience and perseverance – skills which will help them later in life when they must tackle other more difficult challenges. Crafts that require drying require waiting! This is a great lesson for a youth to demonstrate self-control and patience. Also, as always things might not go exactly as we hoped! Crafts are a great way to promote flexibility in any growing child. There is no right or wrong way in exploring one’s own creativity!

Coordination

Practicing musical instruments improves hand-eye coordination. Youths develop important motor skills when playing music just as they do when playing different sports.

Relaxation

More and more, music therapy is being used to complement more traditional forms of medicine. Researchers acknowledge that certain types of music can aid relaxation by lowering heart rates and blood pressure thereby giving the average less privileged child who is going through issues to have a different way of channeling his/her energy.

Self-Confidence

Music builds confidence in anybody over time. A young child grows up having the boldness to speak before people because he has spent time studying on what he will speak just as he has learnt to spend time learning a musical instrument or writing a song. Children who practice self-expression and creativity often become better communicators later in life.

Taking Responsibility

Creating art is a fine way for children to make choices and solve problems. Every step involves making a decision: what color to use, how to make a line, what size to make something. With every choice the object becomes more and more their own. Everyone has an imagination. Art takes it a step further. Through art, children create something that, until that point, was only imagined. Thus, they create visual manifestations of abstract ideas.