BUSKAID

Buskaid is:

Buskaid is a thriving Academy of String Teaching and Performance, situated in the heart of the South African Township of Soweto. Its primary mission is to give opportunities to impoverished and previously disadvantaged township children to learn classical (bowed) string instruments to the highest international standards. 


Buskaid has got a vision and it is:

                       ᛫ Through learning and playing classical music, all township children will be given the opportunity to channel their creative energies and talents.

Buskaid has got a mission too, and it is:

                      ᛫ Giving children from impoverished backgrounds in the communities of South Africa the opportunity to learn classical music of stringed instruments to the highest possible norms.

                          ᛫  They have got an unique style playing and repertoire,to encourage the most talented of these students to form their own professional orchestra.

                          ᛫ Training a select number of its students to become professional string teachers.

                          ᛫ Setting up with the secondary aim of producing Buskaid's own hand-made violins, violas and cellos, staff its own instrument repair workshop, offering employment opportunities to local youth.