Music is an important part of every culture and at the same time transcends culture. It can be used to break down barriers and build up life. It can make us laugh, cry, and dance. It can help us pass the time or make time stand still. It can help us express what is inside of us or make us want to be apart of something greater than ourselves. The song we are singing is a song of hope.
Music and the arts are woven into the fabric of everything we do to help provide African youth with an alternative to a life of sex and drugs. It also provides psychosocial benefits to individuals who have experienced the trauma and grief of being orphaned by AIDS or sexually exploited.
Hopefest is a movement committed to stopping the spread of AIDS by promoting purity as a way of life through the lens of the gospel. It’s a series of mass-awareness events that utilizes the arts, education, and entertainment in order to train and equip Zambian youth with life-saving AIDS and human trafficking prevention strategies.
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The short retreat of camp creates space for vision. At camp, each child receives leadership discipling, life skill training, grief counseling, career development, and artistic workshop opportunities, as well as the tangible provision of food and shelter. Camp serves to inspire a vision for a young person’s life that can be achieved despite the cultural presence of AIDS and slavery.
Along with a formal music education, students receive help for traditional schooling, prevention education for AIDS and human trafficking, basic needs provision, and career development involving vocational skills training, micro-enterprise and other livelihood opportunities.
The small gift of $1 every day from 365 people can provide over 100 orphans at the academy of music with: a formal music education; traditional schooling; prevention education for AIDS, human trafficking and malaria; meet basic needs; life-skills training; career development involving vocational skills training; micro enterprise and other livelihood opportunities.
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Africa is being ravaged by AIDS and sex trafficking. But there is hope.
Music and the arts offer an alternative to a life lived in fear of sickness and slavery. The Academy of Music in Choma, Zambia, is battling AIDS and trafficking by offering students life through the arts. And they need your instruments!
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Mwana Coffee is just one of the ways that we invite others to participate in what we like to call the Art of Compassion. By drinking Mwana, you’re supporting the Zambians who grew and harvested the coffee, and you’re touching the lives of the Zambian orphans who are already part of the Poetice family. So, thank you for becoming part of something bigger by taking part in something you already enjoy—a cup of coffee.
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