American Children's Orchestras for Peace, Inc.

Description

The goal of the American Children's Orchestras Program is to provide disabled, underprivileged, and at-risk children in hard-to-reach communities an alternative to poverty and violence, through music. By providing disadvantaged children with instruments, free music lessons, and positive role models on a daily basis, our vision caters as much to the children's artistic development as it does to the idea of music as a tool for social change. ACOP targets communities with acute needs and social problems. The children have demonstrated good citizenship, shown improvement in cognitive skills, learned to work in groups, and built self-esteem, as proven by research in the music education field.