MUZIKI

Direct musical help to Africa

MUZIKI is a danish private initiative to support Ruhija School of Music in the Bukoba area of Tanzania by collecting and supplying the school with musical instruments and gear.

MUZIKI  helps Ruhija School of  Music  to

 establish a full modern instrumentarium. This school educates musicians and teachers to master both traditional african music and European and American styles, church music, pop and world music.

Joas and Joyce play the 12/8 Amadinda rhythms

The students study up to 2 years. The school fees are heavy since the school is always in lack of funds. So for both students and the school it is difficult to purchase instruments.

The demand for  instruments is urged by the fact, that after finished studies, the students need to bring one or two instruments with them to the villages,  to be able  serve as musicians or music teachers there.

 By assistance from MUZIKI, in June 2009,  this was succesfully the case for 15 graduating students.

New class is starting october 2009.

MUZIKI gets second hand donations from institutions, companies, shops and ordinary people in Denmark. The instruments are repaired and adjusted before they are shipped to Tanzania. This was sucesfully done twice through the help of an organization, that sent containers with hospital equipment to the area. 

MUZIKIis now  delivering by giving directly the instruments to students, who carry them to the destination in connection with student exchange visits to a music college in Kongsberg, Norway.