Child's Play (India) Foundation

Our new project with Mitsuko & Children Walking Tall

We at Child’s Play (India) Foundation have begun a new recorder project at Mitsuko Trust. Around 10-12 children from Children Walking Tall make the trip every week from Mapusa, either by bus or in a minivan, to take recorder lessons from Susan Badyari, who has been with us since last

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The Sound of Music : We have a choir!

We are delighted to announce that we now have a girls choir led by the very experienced and capable Jean Kalgutkar.  Our first lesson at Hamara School took place on Monday.
Jean has been training choirs for decades and still teaches at the Kala Academy. We are delighted to have

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Reshma gets a viola

Reshma is one of the girls in our violin project at Hamara School. She successfully auditioned for the Kala Academy last December , where she is now studying viola with Elvina Fernandes. Elvina helped Reshma choose a new instrument last week.

Thank you, Musequality

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Reasons to come to a WorldBusk event

 
1. Meet the children in our project and see how they are progressing with their music-making.
2. Enjoy performances from professional and amateur musicians, singers and others. In the past, in addition to our violins and a trio, we had guitars, drums and even a juggler. Expect to

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It’s today: World Busk at Literati, Calangute

It’s today! Join us at Literati Bookshop, Calangute (5.30 pm onwards) for our 3rd year at WorldBusk. There will be lots of children with violins (kids from our project + other children), singing, and even one of Goa’s best known bands! And as with most of our busking events, there

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World Busk 2012: Event 1 (Panjim)

What an awesome evening! There were guitars and violins and amazing voices. International classical guitarist Pedro Rodrigues (who was in Goa for a concert) agreed to perform for us on his last evening here.  We were also delighted that Goa’s favourite fadista Sonia Shirsat took time off to come and

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World Busk 2012

For the third year, Child’s Play will be participating in World Busk to raise awareness and funds for Musequality and Child’s Play India.
We are delighted to be having two events this year – on 11 June at Gallery Gitanjali, Panjim and on 16 June at Literati, Calangute.
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Our Supporters in the UK – this is for you

We are delighted to announce that Child’s Play has signed up with the UK’s ‘Virgin Money Giving‘ website to give our supporters in the UK an easy and effective way to donate.
If you are in the UK,  you can donate here. All donations will go to Musequality UK, who are

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