I have recently discovered a really great local charity called Chums. It supports children and their parents who have experienced bereavment or trauma by providing individual support, running workshops, residential weekends, family days and rememberance services. Design Hog cards supports this charity, so I was really pleased when my designs were included to support this worth while cause with a percentage of profits going to Chums. For more info on Chums or Design Hog please follow links here and here.
Watching this video has just reminded me that stressing about Christmas is a luxury. My kids have so much in comparison to those in the film. Landfill Harmonic is an upcoming feature-length
documentary about a remarkable musical orchestra in Paraguay, where the
musicians play instruments made from rubbish. Cateura,
Paraguay is a town essentially built on top of a landfill. Garbage
collectors browse the rubbish for sellable goods, and children are often
at risk of getting involved with drugs and gangs. When orchestra
director Szaran and music teacher Fabio set up a music program for the
kids of Cateura, they soon had more students than they had
instruments.
That changed when Szaran and Fabio were brought
something they had never seen before: a violin made out of garbage.
Today, there’s an entire orchestra of assembled instruments, now called
The Recycled Orchestra.
The film shows how trash and recycled
materials can be transformed into beautiful sounding musical
instruments, but more importantly, it brings witness to the
transformation of precious human beings.
