The work that Maestro Ron has done at DO since 2016, offering a safe environment through orchestral music, to 405 children and young people, and their families, coming from more than 25 countries, will reach the CNN studios at the iconic Hudson Yards in New York. The winner of CNN Hero 2024 will be announced next Sunday, December 8, on the program CNN Hero: An All-Star Tribute, hosted by journalist and writer Anderson Cooper and lawyer and presenter Laura Coates, and broadcast by CNN, CNN International, CNN en Español and CNN Max
You can help us win CNN Heroes 2024 by voting through this link on CNNHeroes.com. You can vote every day, from today until Tuesday, December 3, 10 times a day. You just need to have an email or a Facebook account.
CNN Heroes is a year-round initiative, by the United States news network CNN, that honors everyday people for their selfless, creative efforts to make the world a better place. In its 18 years, CNN Heroes has received nearly 100,000 nominations from people in more than 100 countries. Since 2007, the campaign has profiled nearly 400 Heroes, who have helped millions of people around the world.
At Dream Orchestra, children and young people, with their families and friends from more than 25 countries, share the music stand, rehearsals, stage and healthy leisure time spending: Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Bolivia, Bosnia, Colombia, Chile, China, Eritrea, France, Ghana, India, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Kurdistan, Lebanon, Macedonia, Palestine, Dominican Republic, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, Venezuela and Vietnam.
Fostering respect and appreciation for the differences among us, whether that be age, gender, disability, race, ethnicity or religion, this musical community has transformed their lives and has given them new perspectives for a future in which, in some cases, the sound of bombs is drowned out by the notes of a violin.
Since 2016 Dream Orchestra has become a safe space in Sweden for those who crossed borders, seas, rivers, mountains and deserts for a better life. Most of our founding students have been able to integrate into Swedish society with jobs and started having their own families. Others, who have been deported from Sweden, stay in contact with Dream Orchestra and have become our friends.
Almost every week new students arrive at our three locations. We offer free orchestra activities, instruments that can be borrowed and the opportunity to make friends who become family. All through music and the heroic work of Ron Davis Alvarez.
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For more information you can write to info@dreamorchestra.se. You can also follow the orchestra via @dreamorchestra.se on Instagram and Facebook; Dream Orchestra Association on LinkedIn; and Dream Orchestra Sweden on YouTube.
