The COVID-19 crisis continues to cause great hardship for our students in Kenya. The government there recently announced that schools will remain closed until January. The S'Cool Sounds team continues to connect with our Kenyan teachers and several students over Zoom.

Technology is not easily accessible for the vast majority of our students in the Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi. This week we will initiate a pilot program to continue music learning at home. Each student will bring their soprano recorder home and will receive a weekly worksheet teaching music literacy. This program will quickly move to all of our schools in Kibera.

In the words of one of our School Directors, Isabel Omondi, "Music is therapeutic, especially in these times of uncertainty."

School Director Simeon Ajigo, echoes that sentiment, "Music is a great companion during this quarantine period. Music itself is life."