Sanitansamble - Project

Without BBT’s support, it would not have been possible to continue with individual and group lessons and the students would not have been able to maintain the constant commitment to the study of their instruments, which has eased their return to classroom lessons. During the Christmas holidays, our two orchestras, Sanitansamble and Piccola Orchestra di Forcella, teamed up from a virtual distance to wish everyone a happy holiday and to give a sign of light and hope.

Sanitansamble

Inspired by the success of ‘El Sistema’, which helped bring about social change through music among Venezuela’s most impoverished children, Sanitansamble was founded in 2008 in Sanità, one of the poorest neighbourhoods of Naples. Through a programme of teaching cultural skills, with music at its core, it has since developed ongoing Junior and Senior orchestras and opened the door to alternative lives for many at-risk children and young adults, helping them become disciplined, co-operative and confident citizens.

Sanitansamble’s 2019 BBT Community Grant enabled the organisation to repeat the success of the model in Sanità and establish an ensemble and similar programme in Forcella, another deprived and dangerous neighbourhood in Naples. With the unexpected arrival of the restrictions of the Covid-19 pandemic, Sanitansamble was also able to set up free instrumental loan agreements with local families and move instrumental tuition online so that the youngsters could continue to practice and learn.

Read Sanitansamble’s BBT Blog, And the Music Goes… Online here