Shropshire Music Foundation

The Shropshire Music Foundation has helped over 17,500 children and young people in conflict zones build leadership, peacemaking skills, and resilience to extremism through grassroots music education.

The Shropshire Music Foundation develops

 youth leadership and capacity for peacemaking and problem-solving in global conflict zones through the establishment of locally-run, youth-led music education programs. These programs provide local children opportunities for education, trauma relief, expression, and creativity and local teenagers opportunities to develop leadership, teaching, and expressive skills, to become role models in their communities, to access broader opportunities for education, and to reduce vulnerability to extremist group participation.

The Shropshire Music Foundation provides

free musical instruments and instruction to former child soldiers and refugees in some of the world’s most war-torn locations: Uganda, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, and Syrian Refugee Centers. Since 1999, we have taught more than 17,000 young people that through music they can bring healing, hope, and peace to their communities.

The Shropshire Music Foundation is operational

in 3 countries: Kosovo, though local teenage Youth Volunteer Teachers; Uganda, through local School Teachers; and Greece, as Liz, Refugees, and International Volunteers teach Peace Through Music in Syrian and Yazidi Refugee Camps and Centers.

Please join us as we open a new program in Bangladesh, 

where The Shropshire Music Foundation will be establishing a new PEACE THROUGH MUSIC program for ROHINGYA REFUGEES who have fled genocide in Myanmar and are now living in Refugee Camps in Bangladesh.