SONIDOS DE LA TIERRA
Community and social development through music

It's a project for children and young, created by Luis Szarán,through the formation of music schools, musical groupings and cultural associations, it facilitates the shortcut to the musical education to more than 3.000 participants of scarce resources, in 72 communities of the Paraguayan countryside.
 
Sonidos de la Tierra, is based on the concept of "education through the arts" began in 2002 in 18 towns, with support from the AVINA Foundation. Today, with alliances with more than 100 other local, national and international institutions, both public and private, the program reaches over 72 communities throughout Paraguay. Its supported also by public and private institutions like: National Parliament, FONDEC, ITAIPU Binacional, Philharmonic Society of Asunción, Embassies of Germany, USA, France and Italy, Partners of the America (Chapter Paraguay-Kansas), Municipality of Asunción Culture Department and others. More than 100 companies, municipalities, governments and sponsors conform the list of patrons in the benefitted communities.

In 2005, Luis Szarán received a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship from the Skoll Foundation in California, USA, which has permitted Sonidos de la Tierra to extend its program into the neediest areas of the Paraguayan countryside. In the same year, Sonidos de la Tierra incorporated itself as a program of the Tierranuestra Foundation. Following the program's success in Paraguay, efforts are underway to take Sonidos de la Tierra's methodology and operating methods to other parts of Paraguay and the world, with the support of Plan International (Plan Paraguay) and Missionsprokur SJ Nürnberg.

• To foment self-esteem of children and young.
• To reaffirm the cultural identity.
• To generate healthy activities programs.
• To foment the music's social practice.

• To create opportunities for young talent development .
• To rescue and to affirm traditional values of the regional culture.
• To organize durable structures for the programming of cultural activities.

• School of Music organization.
• Creation of Chorus, children and youth orchestras and philharmonic societies.
• Artisans' instrument makers formation and musical leaders.

• “Conservatory on wheels” through a itinerant teachers' system.
• Factory to teach Luthería (for the construction and repair of musical instruments) in Itá, San Ignacio Guasu, Concepción and Asunción.
• Training to musical leaders in Orchestral Direction, composition and musical arrangements.
• Young talent promotion through scholarships of improvement.

• 2.500 children and active youths in the musical art.
• 200 works of the rescued traditional repertoire and diffused for diverse means.
• 500 public activities of healthy enjoy.
• 30 programs of cultural exchange between associate municipalities.
• 6 festivals and national seminars participating almoust 1000 children and youngs.
• Training of 50 musical leaders.