Musical Instruments

Jacob’s Well Appeal partners with schools in various African nations, promoting and supporting education by building facilities and sending equipment such as chairs and tables, white and black boards, sports equipment and clothing and computers to our partner schools. Many of the children in these schools live in slum areas and would otherwise be unable to get any decent education, with the state run schools providing very little in the way of quality learning.

For many years we have also been sending musical instruments to our partner schools. Many African children are very gifted at music with a natural sense of rhythm and a flair for creating wonderful new melodies. What they lack are instruments and the opportunity to develop their skills. The better equipped schools might teach their children how to play the Djembe drums and how to sing in a choir, often with wonderful harmonies and breaking out into choreographed dancing as they sing! Guitars are also quite common, often missing a string or two, though none-the-less, excellently played. Some schools might have a little Casio keyboard which always seem to have a few of the notes that either don’t sound or (worse) won’t stop playing! 

However thanks to a generous gift from the Hull and the East Riding Music service, we have been able to send dozens of brass instruments to two of our partner schools in Burkina Faso. New music teachers have been hired and now dozens of these children are being instructed in how to play the trombone, the trumpet, cornet, French horn, Euphonium or even the tuba! This is a game changer for the schools, and the highlight of the school week for the children who get to play the instruments. Each year, schools in each city or region are asked to prepare choirs to perform in music festivals, and we are looking forward to receiving videos of our pupils accompanying their choirs with brass bands in the heart of Africa! 

If you have any old musical instruments in reasonable condition that you would like to donate to school children in Africa, please contact us. Please note we can’t accept acoustic pianos or large organs.