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15.12.06

switch to Middle East blog

To follow the activities of Music Fund the coming months, best is to switch to our Middle East blog on which we will be posting all our messages.

07.12.06

amateur videoclip of Queen of Belgium visiting Music Fund

On 7th December 2006, Queen Paola of Belgium honored us with a visit. She came to the piano-workshop of Pol De Winter in Antwerp (Pianomobil), where she met with the equipe of Music Fund, members of our board, and especially with students from Ramallah (Palestine) and Maputo (Mozambique), who from September to December 2006 have been following a training programme in how to repair and tune of music instruments, as well as their teachers, instrument experts who have taught introductary courses in Maputo and Ramallah, and now have these young students in their workshops in Belgium. You can find pictures of this visit on the webpage with Music Fund podcasts and here is an amateur videoclip with some images of this visit:

02.12.06

Embassy Mozambique, Brussels

Today we were welcomed at the Embassy of Mozambique in Brussels for a private meeting with Ambassador Mrs Maria-Manuela Dos Santos Lucas. She wanted to meet with Anselmo and Fernando before they will leave Belgium at the end of their three months internship. I also took my godchild Miguel André from Angola with me to this meeting. They all spoke Portugese, so I only understand part of the conversation, but insisted that they speak Portugese so that Fernando and Anselmo could speak at ease with the Ambassador. We were kindly invited for lunch at the Embassy and had a long conversation about the project, their studies and many other topics.