Strucure

“Música en los Barrios” is an ambulant music school to facilitate the acces to music for children and adults of disadvantaged backrounds.

The project is composed in 3 areas:
The recorder classes in the poorest "barrios" of Managua, the extansion of this classes in all reagions of Nicaragua and the "Talleres" which are music workshops for nursery and elementary schools.

The office in Managua is organizing all these areas.

MelB is part of the arts centre “Casa de los tres Mundos” in Granada.

MelB is an charitable organization , which is financed exclusively by donnations from Germany, Suiss, Austria and the United Staates. The majority of the donnations comes from the german organization "Pan y Arte" . Also MelB is getting practical help by Luise Scherf (German music teacher and member of the “Pan y Arte-Commitee"), Flautando Köln (a german recorder ensemble) and Urs Leonhardt Steiner (Suiss musician and conductor, member of the “Pan y Arte-Commitee"), who come regulary to Managua giving workshops for the MelB-teachers.

Recently MelB is searching for other possibilities of further education for its teachers and pupils in all latin america.