The Power of Culture

Since the 90's, children and youngsters from the Indian communities in the Bolivian province of Santa Cruz enthusiastically assemble Baroque choirs and orchestras. This is an indirect result of the discovery in the '70 of thousands of scores with Latin American Baroque music.

The cultural organisation La Restinga has been working  since 2007 on its project Crea Belén in the Peruvian Amazon city Iquitos. Children learn how to deal creatively with complex social issues.

Scepticism and hope characterize the Brussels Declaration, the final statement of the international meeting Culture and creativity. Vectors for development.

Two years ago Kavita Shivdasani, a value-educator, had a unique idea for bringing the realities of India into her classroom. She took her affluent group of young students on an educational tour of Mumbai's Arthur Road jail.

A former 19th-century slaughterhouse in the Bolivian capital Cochabamba has been home to a unique mega-sized project since 2005: mARTadero.

"Locally written books are scarce in Ugandan classrooms. Teachers prefer using the British literature they are used to in class." According to Hilda Twongyeirwe of Femrite, Uganda's association of female writers, this should change.  

It has been estimated 700 Salvadorans leave the country every day in search of work. The Solidarity Crafts-programme tries to stop that trend.

Metahouse in Phnom Penh is one of the few art institutions in Cambodia attempting to use art to help the people of Cambodia work through their traumatic past.

Contemporary dance is rare on the Cape Verde islands, but the Raiz di Polon company is popular in its own country and abroad.