Sustainable Development Goals
UNESCO Seeks Youth Voices to Shape Global Agenda
UNESCO is preparing a Post-2030 Youth Education and Learning Agenda as part of their Education Beyond 2030 initiative.
Goalkeepers Event Showcases the Power of Music across Africa
In early June, the Gates Foundation hosted its first Goalkeepers event in Lagos, Nigeria, bringing together global leaders, policymakers, and artists to address Africa’s progress in meeting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and showcase the power of music to unite people.
From the Embers of a São Paulo Favela, Music Grows
Mauricio Cruz, Institutional Development Manager, Instituto Baccarelli
For over 27 years, the Brazilian nonprofit NGO Instituto Baccarelli has been supporting social work with children and young people in vulnerable situations in the favela of Heliópolis, in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The Institute has a dramatic founding story: in 1996, after a massive fire devastated the favela, the esteemed choral director Maestro Silvio Baccarelli was moved to begin giving free violin lessons to children whose families had been displaced by the disaster. Shortly afterwards, the small string ensemble that originated the Baccarelli Institute was formed.
