Xamfrà: Art for integration in Raval neighborhood

We visited Xamfrà new premises, one project that is open to all the children in Raval.

We visited Xamfrà new premises, one project that is open to all the children in Raval.

Last June 30th fifty children aged between 6 and 13, all of them belonging to La Salut Alta Private Foundation could visit AIRE exhibition.

TDHF is one of these organizations that works at a small scale on the number of people they can get to, but at a great scale on the hope and dedication.

We think it is a nice idea and a new suggestion to give incenses and buttis made by women in Nepal and sold by TDHF.

Toni Aguilar, their director, explained us their objectives for the neighborhood and showed us Kumari House and the Open Center.

Roger Torné Foundation visited Toni Aguilar’s project in Katmandu.

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Xamfrà, Centre de Música i Escena in the El Raval neighbourhood of Barcelona is a project by the ARC Music Workshop Private Foundation. It is not just any music school, as it deals with using music, dance and theatre as tools to perform social tasks of integration and living together. The Roger Torné Foundation collaborates [...]

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