Leaving Huancayo Today

We depart from Huancayo and the bus ride down into Lima in about an hour. This part of the project is finished. We are leaving a core group of 5 people, including 3 teachers and several professional artists, with a real enthusiasm for music, the instruments, playing together and a desire to use music and the skills we have been sharing to work with children in Huancayo in a therapeutic way. I really hope the project is sustained and I think it will be :)

Week 3

Week 3, our last week here, is underway. Staff are beginning to lead sessions so things looking positive. A few sessions lost due to stomach problems but still on course. Just 4 days left before we head back to Lima on Saturday.

Week 2 underway

With week one finished, the instruments bought and used for the first time, the second week of the project is now underway.
Daily sessions and staff workshops (info/pics at the Music as Therapy blog http://www.musicastherapy.org/news/blog.html) mean doing everything we can to embed and make the project sustainable when we leave in less than 2 weeks.
Some pics of Huancayo and the local area now posted down the side of the blog.