Students:
Music for Compassion is a privately run piano business that is dedicated to its students. I am grateful for each of my students because they bring unique talents and gifts to lessons every week. They remind me of myself at a young age when I was learning what all the black and white keys meant. What it felt like be assigned a piece of music that I couldn't wait to get home to study. What it felt like to finally realize that music wasn't just about playing correct notes, but it was about playing with emotion.
To play music that moves people to feel an emotion in storytelling is the goal of my teaching. Whether my students are veteran players, or newbies, I am proud that we get to meet every week to play music and find their passion.
My passion is to see the student start at knowing little to nothing about music, or about piano. In short time they come to know the rhythms and beats, notes on the page, notes on the keyboard, and find their voice in telling a story with the piano. Watching students grow in music makes my love for teaching sore.
The Formula
Sole Hope:
Music for Compassion has committed to donating one student's monthly tuition to Sole Hope, a non-profit organization focused on the training, designing and making, and distributing of shoes to the women and children in Ndola, Zambia.
Not a hand-out organization, the vision of Sole Hope is to develop a shoe made from resources available to the poorest of the poor widows, in the city of Ndola, so that these women can be taught at a trade school offered by Wiphan Care Ministries to make these shoes for their families, the Wiphan school, and their outlying communities. By knowing the trade of shoe making they will earn an income, which will help them purchase food and necessities to keep their families alive.
Music for Compassion is a privately run piano business that is dedicated to its students. I am grateful for each of my students because they bring unique talents and gifts to lessons every week. They remind me of myself at a young age when I was learning what all the black and white keys meant. What it felt like be assigned a piece of music that I couldn't wait to get home to study. What it felt like to finally realize that music wasn't just about playing correct notes, but it was about playing with emotion.
To play music that moves people to feel an emotion in storytelling is the goal of my teaching. Whether my students are veteran players, or newbies, I am proud that we get to meet every week to play music and find their passion.
My passion is to see the student start at knowing little to nothing about music, or about piano. In short time they come to know the rhythms and beats, notes on the page, notes on the keyboard, and find their voice in telling a story with the piano. Watching students grow in music makes my love for teaching sore.
The Formula
Sole Hope:
Not a hand-out organization, the vision of Sole Hope is to develop a shoe made from resources available to the poorest of the poor widows, in the city of Ndola, so that these women can be taught at a trade school offered by Wiphan Care Ministries to make these shoes for their families, the Wiphan school, and their outlying communities. By knowing the trade of shoe making they will earn an income, which will help them purchase food and necessities to keep their families alive.
Shoes are a comfort and luxury for these Zambian people. Some do not have money at all. Living in rooms smaller than an average American room, filled with an entire family, there is no way they could afford the luxury of a pair of shoes. Therefore, they go barefoot.
A fact of life. A reality in Ndola, Zambia.
Why does Music For Compassion care? Because a special girl named Margret whom I sponsor via Wiphan Care Ministries is in my monetary care and I would like her and all her of Zambian brothers, sisters, mother, friends, aunts, uncles, teachers, and grandparents to be safe. One less chance for harm to attack them. One more chance at life.
Wiphan Care Ministries:
In May 2010 I started sponsoring a young girl, Margret, in Ndola, Zambia, through Wiphan Care Ministries. My monthly monetary gift provides her with a meal and education, and a chance to make a difference in her life to make it on her own one day. Margret's favorite color is Orange and this small bio about her caught my attention:
Margret lives with her mother and six siblings. She wants to go to school so she can improve her life. She likes to eat Nshima and chicken. She wants to become a pilot and be the first from her community to fly a plane.
Wiphan Care Ministries:
Margret lives with her mother and six siblings. She wants to go to school so she can improve her life. She likes to eat Nshima and chicken. She wants to become a pilot and be the first from her community to fly a plane.
A girl with passion. A goal to finish school to become the first pilot from her community. Perhaps one day she will fly her plane, pick me up at an African airport, and we'll go flying together with the beautiful views of Africa under our wings.
My commitment + her passion = compassion.
