MusicWorks, Capetown, South Africa

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MusicWorks is a community-led Stephen Lewis Foundation (SLF) partner organization that uses the power of music to unlock potential in the lives of children across Cape Town, South Africa. Through interventions using music, song and movement, MusicWorks creates safe spaces for engagement, creativity, care and healing in communities disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic.

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Music can’t erase the challenges of growing up, but it can shape how children and youth see themselves and their futures. For children living in communities disproportionately affected by HIV and other challenges to their health and well-being, music therapy can turn silence into song, fear into courage, and despair into hope. And in that process, there is the power to change lives.