Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology: "The primary mission of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology (CCE), founded in 1992 by Professor Regula Qureshi, is to facilitate multicultural musical sound for the public good, through multiple ethnomusicological activities worldwide: musical archiving, performance, research, teaching, and community engaged outreach - all contributing towards human development: improving the world through music, building and sustaining community through expressive sound."
Music for Global Human Development: "Music for Global Human Development (M4GHD) is an approach to applied ethnomusicology that entails participatory action research projects in music & development (humanized in aims and methods), centered on global collaborations between academics, NGOs, government organizations, musicians, and others, applying ethnomusicology to real-world social issues, focusing on peoples who have been marginalized--socially, politically, economically--by colonialism and its aftermath, whether in the "developing" world or not, and linking them to others across the globe."
Love and Hope International: "Love and Hope is a Canadian Non-Profit Organization whose work is to support mental health (Depression and Anxiety) Currently Resides in Edmonton, Alberta."
Tololwa Mollel: "Tololwa Mollel is a storyteller, dramatist, and an award-winning author of over twenty books for the young and not so young in English and in Swahili, the national language of his native African country of Tanzania."
With sincere thanks to the SAS Fund, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, which provided startup funding for the initial three-month pilot project, and all our individual project donors on GoFundMe