Recorders Without Borders
Our Mission
Recorders without Borders seeks to share the gift of a rich musical experience by providing sustainable recorder music education programs around the world with a current focus on Kenya
What We Do
Recorders without Borders has created the Kenyan Recorder Competence-based Curriculum Companion to support recorder music education in Kenyan schools. This comprehensive program includes training videos and support materials for Kenyan educators.
Teachers throughout Kenya can access training videos on this website under the “Kenyan Partners” tab. The videos are designed for non-musically trained educators to teach themselves and then empower them to teach their students using the Kenyan Compentency-based Curriculum Foundation Music program of the Jomo Kenyatta Foundation.
Due to a shortage of instruments in Kenya as well as their relative expense, we collect gently used recorders from U.S. students who have moved on to other instruments and distribute them to Kenyan schools, thereby creating a sustainable music program.
It’s a global effort
Participation has many facets: U.S. students can donate their recorders, volunteers can sew new recorder cases, anyone anywhere can donate money to fund production costs and supplies, U.S. trained teachers can volunteer their time and talents to produce training videos and materials, educators in Kenya can teach themselves to play the recorder, and Kenyan students can learn a new instrument!
We Support the SDGs
The United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are global goals set to solve economic, social and environmental challenges by 2030. We at Recorders without Borders believe that every positive action we take, no matter how small can make a difference. Our work, collecting unwanted musical instruments and sharing music education with students with few material goods contributes to the following goals:
Learn more about how you can support the Goals here.
We wish to be a bridge of understanding and connection between the teachers and students of the United States to the teachers and students of the developing world through the common language of music.
