The Australian Children’s Instrument Bank Project
This will develop a musical instrument repository to allow children everywhere within the Sistema programmes to have their own instrument. It will be developed as follows:
- A national instrument surrender scheme – calling on all Australians to hand in their unwanted instruments, schools and communities too – we will accept instruments in need of repair or reconditioning.
- We will encourage the wealthier private schools who may have a float of loan instruments that they regularly replace as they get older and in need of repair, to give them to our instrument bank. Often they are perfectly functional but in need of new strings, or in the case of bows, in need of rehairing, and in the case of wind and brass, adjusting and refelting.
- We will establish a relationship with major musical instrument supply and retail distributors in Australia to facilitate a useful and quick method for supplying instruments to children – whatever their circumstance.
"The majority of the children and juveniles belong to the groups that are most vulnerable and excluded in all of Venezuelan society. Participating in the orchestral movement has made it possible for them to set up new goals, plans, projects and dreams, and at the same time it is a way of creating meaning and helping them in their day-to-day struggle for better conditions of life through the variety of opportunities that the orchestral movement offers them." __Jose Antonio Abreu
