SWW: Satlillo, MX
Submitted by cuukiesncream on Sat, 01/19/2008 - 20:42.
Last updated on Thu, 07/09/2009 - 13:36.
Vital Stats
ongoing project
2000
34
Over $20,000.00
Project Photos
The Problem
Its hard being a child. However, its harder to live in underprivilaged circumstances and remain a child. Underprivilaged children dont have the same oppertunities as families who are well off. Strings With Wings, Inc. wants to give underprivilaged children or at risk youth an oppertunity to learn music. By allowing at risk youth to learn music, we give them a chance to transcend their circumstances and open a door to a brighter future.
In Saltillo, Mexico -- I saw poverty, like I've never seen before. I saw how these children didnt have proper clothing, hygene and often didnt get a meal everyday. I was overwhelmed with compassion -- no one should have to live like that. So I wanted to do -anything- that could help. So I decided I would bring the power of music. You see in Mexico the government doesnt have programs for the underprivilaged. There are no Salvation Army Centers, Good Will, or food shelters.
Seeing this I wanted to give some children a good outlet that could help them in the future, if they continued to work hard at it. So I was set on bring the gift of music, I wanted them to learn how to play. So, Violin was the instrument I chose. I chose it because I play the violin and I would be able to teach them.
Why It's Important
Music is a very important part of my life. It has personally helped me cope with Hurricane Katrina, my aboulitas death and many other obstacles that have come into my life. I have seen the power of music and how it can change an individual's life.
It has also helped me academically. I have never been good at math and having dyslexia doesnt help. Amazing enough, music actually helps children academically. "Experimental research performed with 8- to 11-year-old children with reading problems found that the reading skills of children who received music instruction (n = 6) were significantly higher than those of children who did not receive the instruction (n = 6) (Douglas & Willatts, 1994)."
Music is such a positive outlit for children and adults. It has an amazing power to make an individual feel self-worth while also learning values like intergety, perseverance, determination etc. I want to share the power of music with at risk children and youth.
The Plan Of Action
To accomplish my project I set many goals. My first goal was to find ten violins and other necessary musical equipment. My second goal was to organize a group and plan for the three week music camp. My third goal was to raise enough money to fund all equipment needed to run the music camp, puppet workshop; as well as transportation, food, and lodging for the group. Once in Mexico my final goal was to locate and hire a violin instructor for the children upon my departure. It took a full year of fundraising, advertising, grant writing and public speaking to meet those goals. I spoke at many events such as Dreams Show; a benefit performance for Lynn Meadows Discovery Center and Symphony Rocks; an educational performance presented by Gulf Coast Symphony Youth Orchestra. In Addition, I volunteered to perform at many community functions such as Negrotto’s Art Gallery where I was given the opportunity to network and educate others about my mission.
I wrote to Shar Music requesting a donation of 10 retired violins. These violins were donated then painted by local artists, many of who are nationally recognized and auctioned at events such as Dreams Show and the Wine Pairing Benefit Dinner. My main fundraiser was a wine pairing dinner with silent auction, featuring young musicians as well as a stringed quartet from a local middle school. This event was advertised on a local news station WLOX. The dinner featured the Gulf Coast Symphony Executive Director, as master of ceremonies for the evening. The benefit dinner raised $6,000.00. My original fundraising goal was $12,000.00; however, we raised a total of $18,000.00 by the end of June. One thing that played a big role in spreading the name of Strings With Wings, Inc. was the fact that I won a national grant. Strings With Wings was awarded the DoSomething: Take Action Grant – A national grant of which 10 recipients were given funding for their project. Afterward, Strings With Wings appeared in many publications such as the Sunherald News Paper, Wonka Vision magazine, RedeFine magazine, Beach Blvd magazine and South Mississippi Living magazine educating readers about this project. Upon my return, I work with a local attorney to make Strings With Wings an incorporated business. I have also identified and recruited a 13 member teen board, 12 member Advisory board and a 8 member Executive board. I sit as the president of the Strings With Wings Executive Board. Once a month I create an agenda, lead a meeting, set new goals and plan future events. Strings With Wings Teen board members are young men and women thirteen years of age and older from across the Mississippi Gulf Coast who show extraordinary leadership skills and are devoted to helping children. Advisory and Executive board members include local business leaders and community leaders who have agreed to volunteer his/her time over the next year to help Strings With Wings reach its full potential.
How Can Others Get Involved?
Please consider helping me provide a once in a lifetime experience to underprivilaged children. You can help by informing other people on our mission. Another way you can help is by running an instrument drive at your school or college. If you are interested in helping us please leave a comment and feel free to contact me at cuukiesncream@gmail.com or facebook.
Project Updates
03/12/09
Update: FUNDRAISERS
*Our benefit dinner is coming up!!! April 26, 2009.
*We will be painting faces on March 14, 2009 for donations.
SUMMER OF 2009
We have the week where we will be returning to Saltillo, MX this summer. We will be down in MX on the week of July 11th 2009.
This year I am happy to announce we will be accommodating up to 30 volunteers and board members who will accompany me down to saltillo. This is double the number of last year.
This summer we will have camps covering Intermediate Violin and Art. Each camp will consist of one week.
We are in desperate need of art supplies. We expect 300 children to participate in this camp (not including our music program children).
We need mass donations such as : paint brushes, canvases, paint (watercolor & oil). It is important for everyone to spread the word to those who could possibly donate these items.
If you can donate or know someone who can, please contact me at: cuukiesncream@gmail.com, leave a comment in regards to this update or call me at 228-207-4675.
Mail all donations to:
8095 Rd 529
Biloxi, MS 39532
NATIONAL TEEN BOARD
We will be implementing a National Teen Board in a couple of months. I will keep everyone updated on this.
Additional hours volunteered: 150
Additional people impacted: 0
Additional people involved: 45
04/11/09
Update: ANNOUNCMENTS:
Wine pairing dinner in benefit of Strings With Wings,Inc.
April 26th 2009
Doors will open at 6:00 p.m. for silent auction
First course and pour will be served at 7:00
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LAJrtDi4MCg/SbALNzuXYMI/AAAAAAAAADQ/NWV5hr135Go/s1600-h/2009+E-mail+Invite+Benefit+Dinner.png
How can you help?
Please follow us on twitter, blogspot and spread the word to your friends about strings with wings!!!http://twitter.com/StringsWW
http://stringswithwings.blogspot.com/
SUMMER 2009
Due to the violence on the MX/US border we are having to post-pone our trip to Saltillo, Mexico. However, we are starting to fundraise to bring our students from Mexico TO the United States. In order to make this possible we need your help! We need schools/communities or families to sponsor a young musican in our program. This money will go towards paying for the young persons travel expenses, housing, private instruction and much more. If you are interested in sponsoring a child please contact me.
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In Saltillo, Mexico -- I saw poverty, like I've never seen before. I saw how these children didnt have proper clothing, hygene and often didnt get a meal everyday. I was overwhelmed with compassion -- no one should have to live like that. So I wanted to do -anything- that could help. So I decided I would bring the power of music. You see in Mexico the government doesnt have programs for the underprivilaged. There are no Salvation Army Centers, Good Will, or food shelters.
Seeing this I wanted to give some children a good outlet that could help them in the future, if they continued to work hard at it. So I was set on bring the gift of music, I wanted them to learn how to play. So, Violin was the instrument I chose. I chose it because I play the violin and I would be able to teach them.Why is it important to you?: Music is a very important part of my life. It has personally helped me cope with Hurricane Katrina, my aboulitas death and many other obstacles that have come into my life. I have seen the power of music and how it can change an individual's life.
It has also helped me academically. I have never been good at math and having dyslexia doesnt help. Amazing enough, music actually helps children academically. "Experimental research performed with 8- to 11-year-old children with reading problems found that the reading skills of children who received music instruction (n = 6) were significantly higher than those of children who did not receive the instruction (n = 6) (Douglas & Willatts, 1994)."
Music is such a positive outlit for children and adults. It has an amazing power to make an individual feel self-worth while also learning values like intergety, perseverance, determination etc. I want to share the power of music with at risk children and youth.
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I wrote to Shar Music requesting a donation of 10 retired violins. These violins were donated then painted by local artists, many of who are nationally recognized and auctioned at events such as Dreams Show and the Wine Pairing Benefit Dinner. My main fundraiser was a wine pairing dinner with silent auction, featuring young musicians as well as a stringed quartet from a local middle school. This event was advertised on a local news station WLOX. The dinner featured the Gulf Coast Symphony Executive Director, as master of ceremonies for the evening. The benefit dinner raised $6,000.00. My original fundraising goal was $12,000.00; however, we raised a total of $18,000.00 by the end of June. One thing that played a big role in spreading the name of Strings With Wings, Inc. was the fact that I won a national grant. Strings With Wings was awarded the DoSomething: Take Action Grant – A national grant of which 10 recipients were given funding for their project. Afterward, Strings With Wings appeared in many publications such as the Sunherald News Paper, Wonka Vision magazine, RedeFine magazine, Beach Blvd magazine and South Mississippi Living magazine educating readers about this project. Upon my return, I work with a local attorney to make Strings With Wings an incorporated business. I have also identified and recruited a 13 member teen board, 12 member Advisory board and a 8 member Executive board. I sit as the president of the Strings With Wings Executive Board. Once a month I create an agenda, lead a meeting, set new goals and plan future events. Strings With Wings Teen board members are young men and women thirteen years of age and older from across the Mississippi Gulf Coast who show extraordinary leadership skills and are devoted to helping children. Advisory and Executive board members include local business leaders and community leaders who have agreed to volunteer his/her time over the next year to help Strings With Wings reach its full potential.
How Can Others Help?: Please consider helping me provide a once in a lifetime experience to underprivilaged children. You can help by informing other people on our mission. Another way you can help is by running an instrument drive at your school or college. If you are interested in helping us please leave a comment and feel free to contact me at cuukiesncream@gmail.com or facebook.
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In Saltillo, Mexico -- I saw poverty, like I've never seen before. I saw how these children didnt have proper clothing, hygene and often didnt get a meal everyday. I was overwhelmed with compassion -- no one should have to live like that. So I wanted to do -anything- that could help. So I decided I would bring the power of music. You see in Mexico the government doesnt have programs for the underprivilaged. There are no Salvation Army Centers, Good Will, or food shelters.
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I wrote to Shar Music requesting a donation of 10 retired violins. These violins were donated then painted by local artists, many of who are nationally recognized and auctioned at events such as Dreams Show and the Wine Pairing Benefit Dinner. My main fundraiser was a wine pairing dinner with silent auction, featuring young musicians as well as a stringed quartet from a local middle school. This event was advertised on a local news station WLOX. The dinner featured the Gulf Coast Symphony Executive Director, as master of ceremonies for the evening. The benefit dinner raised $6,000.00. My original fundraising goal was $12,000.00; however, we raised a total of $18,000.00 by the end of June. One thing that played a big role in spreading the name of Strings With Wings, Inc. was the fact that I won a national grant. Strings With Wings was awarded the DoSomething: Take Action Grant – A national grant of which 10 recipients were given funding for their project. Afterward, Strings With Wings appeared in many publications such as the Sunherald News Paper, Wonka Vision magazine, RedeFine magazine, Beach Blvd magazine and South Mississippi Living magazine educating readers about this project. Upon my return, I work with a local attorney to make Strings With Wings an incorporated business. I have also identified and recruited a 13 member teen board, 12 member Advisory board and a 8 member Executive board. I sit as the president of the Strings With Wings Executive Board. Once a month I create an agenda, lead a meeting, set new goals and plan future events. Strings With Wings Teen board members are young men and women thirteen years of age and older from across the Mississippi Gulf Coast who show extraordinary leadership skills and are devoted to helping children. Advisory and Executive board members include local business leaders and community leaders who have agreed to volunteer his/her time over the next year to help Strings With Wings reach its full potential.
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That's such a great idea! Good luck on your project!
Strings With Wings, Inc.
Live the dream
Thanks! The project went very well!! We currently have 11 students that are dedicating their time to study violin. They all have hopes and aspirations to use music and violin as their job when they are grown.
Thank you for your support!
Arielle
that is really awesome!! I would like to start something like this where I live! can we keep in touch? please email me at harvardgurl@gmail.com
Thanks!!!
This is incredible! Good luck on the non-profit status.
Strings With Wings, Inc.
Live the dream
Thank you all for your support. It means alot to me that you spend the time to comment on this project. Here's an update on the children.
*update*
The children just had their first violin recital which was held at a musuem called "The Bird Museum of Mexico". They had over 500 people from the surrounding community pay to attend their performace.
We do plan on taking a trip this summer where we will hold an art camp for the other children in the community and our music camp.
**If you have any art supplies that you can donate like paintbrushes, canvases, modpodge etc. please leave a comment and e-mail me at cuukiesncream@gmail.com.
Also we are thinking about taking on an international teen board -we do not have all the details ironed out- ;however, if interested please leave a comment.
You can find this cause on facebook under our name: Strings With Wings, Inc. please join and help spread our mission!! Thank you all again!!!
And those who have this good opportunities to live in, who always have everything they desired are not at all thankful. I saw many poor people working harder then the rich ones and I saw how hard they study at school, but not only. They always try to be the best in their jobs. How can I appreciate a guy interested only to have the latest short wigs models?
Thanks! The project went very well!! We currently have 11 students that are dedicating their time to study violin. They all have hopes and aspirations to use music and violin as their job when they are grown.
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