MIT Brazil: Drum workshop for school children

Roberto Carneiro Farraz de Andrade, a field sales representative with Adhesives Technologies in Brazil, helped to organize a drum workshop at the children’s day care center “Mãe do Salvador” in the Alto de Pinheiros suburb of São Paulo. This all-day care facility, established back in 1967 by women from the neighborhood, is a place to stay for children of mothers who need to go out to  work. The charitable organization looks after 160 children aged from 3 months to 4 years from morning to the early evening on a daily basis. A further 120 school children between 6 and 14 years also visit the facility in the afternoons. And it was for these children that Farraz de Andrade organized a drum workshop. “I think it’s right for me to help this organization as it’s within my own neighborhood. It is something that my family has long been involved in. The drum workshop project was a good opportunity for me to also do something useful.”