Venezuela’s national system of children and youth orchestras

This project is meant to incorporate children and teenagers in vulnerable situations or extreme poverty into the national system of children and youth orchestras by creating, equipping, developing, supervising and assessing regional orchestras and choirs for children and teenagers, as well as artisanal workshops with musical instruments, giving priority to people with disabilities, children whose rights have been infringed upon, and people living in poverty, to achieve a significant improvement in the quality of life of participants, their families and communities, by using music as a cohesion and social integration strategy, providing the population with activities that allow them to attain development in a socially-minded democracy by establishing and adequate, productive use of spare time. the widespread expansion of social measures and music education that is el sistema, seen from a functional, educational, artistic and administrative perspective, has been made possible by setting up local centers and modules in all 24 states of the federal territory. there are currently 440 centers and 1,340 modules across the country, where children, teenagers and young adults are looked after by an academic staff made up of 10,191 teachers distributed across 24 states, and based, most of them, in the schools to support the simon bolivar project for the teaching of orchestral and choir music. the entity currently has 1,210 orchestras and 372 choirs for youths and children.