How can we operate?
Since we prefer to rely on people who already have experience of the situation in Sao Paulo, we would like to support a pre-existent centre with the aim to create a place open to young people up to the age of 18, a place
free from political and religious boundaries.
Using teachers skilled both in musical and educational matters, teachers such as : Nana Correia, active in singing and music teaching in different centres in Sao Paulo. Julian Martins Tirado and Chico Salem, who dedicate part of their time to teach music in the favelas (even if they are famous and busy musicians in Brazil) and Chris Marshall, musician and teacher of computer science and English.
Activities will be dedicated to culture and specifically to music through the teaching of skills and practical know-how.
Using multimedia means such as computers, TV cameras, microphones, mixers and musical instruments, we can give the knowledge and inspiration needed to use them.
There will be offered introductory computing and programming courses providing basic elements for good use of the internet. These are intended as freedom tools, as they help develop a critical mind and an independent world vision.
Two fully equipped soundproof studios and one audio-video studio will be supplied, with the aim to give birth to a learning and experimentation lab and to produce multimedia material that gives proof of a positive experience to other children outside of the centre, starting with Brazilian schools.
With audio-video equipment we are going create at first a young reporters team collecting true life stories, images and sounds directly from the street. Then an information and communication net connecting children with the district using TV and/or radio.

Sao Paulo today, the world tomorrow...
The Orchestra do Mundo project will not end in Sao Paulo, its intentions are to export this experience as a model of positive intervention, both to other states in Brazil and all over the world in other developing countries.
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