{"id":1180,"date":"2017-11-02T12:25:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T16:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2023-03-10T19:54:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T00:54:16","slug":"around-the-world-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/around-the-world-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanbon Ninjani (Zulu for \u201cHello Everybody\u201d)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"desktop-only\" style=\"float: right; padding: 1em 0em 0em 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/content\/media-files\/images\/tn-F17_MTintheWorld-SouthAfrica.png\" alt=\"Music Together Around the World\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #ff9a00;font-size:2.0em; font-weight: 800; letter-spacing:-1.00px; margin:0em; padding-bottom:0.5em; padding-top:1em; line-height:120%; font-style: italic;\">Music Together Around the World<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #ff9a00;font-size:1.60em;letter-spacing:-0.25px; margin:0em; line-height:120%; font-weight: 400;\">This past June, Linda Brasaemle, a Music Together Teacher Trainer from Minneapolis, MN, had the opportunity to go to South Africa to work with high-risk communities outside of Durban.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile-only\" style=\"padding: 0.5em;\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/content\/media-files\/images\/tn-F17_MTintheWorld-SouthAfrica.png\" alt=\"Music Together Around the World\" width=\"400\" height=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #d7fafa; margin: 2em auto 1em auto; padding: 3% 8%; text-align: left\" width=\"80%\" align=\"center\">\n<h1 style=\"color: #32b8bf\">Sanbon Ninjani<\/h1>\n<h4 style=\"color: #4d4d4d; font-weight: 200; \">(Zulu for &#8220;Hello Everybody&#8221;)<\/h4>\n<p>Linda, along with her daughter and two friends, volunteered with an organization called HOPE Worldwide South Africa, and took donated funds, classroom materials, and supplies to several Early Childhood Development Centers in the region. Music Together Worldwide also lent a hand, so Linda was accompanied by a suitcase full of egg shakers!<\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile-only\" style=\"padding: 0.5em;\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kids in Durban\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/content\/media-files\/images\/aroundtheworld_SA-durbankids3.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p>During her time in the region, Linda and crew visited five schools, held workshops for the teachers, and even painted an outhouse and planted a garden. In between all the hard work, Linda found whatever chance she could get to sing and play with the children. Linda shared that &#8220;the children participated in the song activities I led with enthusiasm and joy, even though they spoke little English. It was a glowing example of the power of music and play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<table class=\"desktop-only\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"text-align: center; border: 0; margin:1em auto\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"border: 0;\">\n<td width=\"60.1881%\" style=\"border: 0; text-align: center;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" style=\"min-width:385.216px; \" src=\"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/content\/media-files\/images\/aroundtheworld_SA-durbankids3.png\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"39.8119%\" style=\"border: 0; text-align: center;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"auto\" height=\"100%\" style=\"max-height:254.784px; \" src=\"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/content\/media-files\/images\/aroundtheworld_SA-durbankids1.png\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"mobile-only\" style=\"padding: 0.5em;\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kids in Durban\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/content\/media-files\/images\/aroundtheworld_SA-durbankids1.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p>From following her around as she went &#8220;Ridin&#8217; in the Car&#8221; to stretching high and low with her nimble friend &#8220;Jack,&#8221; the children jumped right in. And then Linda took out the egg shakers. . . &#8220;Children are fascinated with this simple instrument,&#8221; says Linda. &#8220;But imagine putting them into the hands of children whose playthings are often empty bottles and yogurt cups and found sticks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- YOUTUBE video embed --><\/p>\n<div class=\"desktop-only\" align=\"center\">\n\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"359.72715\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jspyiSW4_ac?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"mobile-only\" align=\"center\">\n\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jspyiSW4_ac?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Linda hopes that she, her daughter, and friends were able to make a lasting difference for the children in those schools. They provided support for the teachers and educational toys for their classrooms \u2014 and made their world a little better by making <span style=\"font-weight: 600; font-style: italic\">it<\/span> more musical.  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"desktop-only\" alt=\"Kids in Durban\" src=\"\/content\/media-files\/images\/durbankids2.png\" width=\"40%\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5% 0 5% 5% ;\">This fall, Linda is back in the classroom in Minnesota, making it a better place, too.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile-only\" style=\"padding: 0.5em;\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kids in Durban\" src=\"\/content\/media-files\/images\/durbankids2.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"desktop-only\" style=\"border: none; border-top: 1.5px #4a86c3 solid; height: 1.5px;\">\n<p style=\"font-size: 85%; line-height: 125%; font-style: italic;  padding:1em 0\">A Music Together Teacher Trainer, Linda Brasaemle holds a B.A. in Fitness and several related certifications, and spent 15 years working for the YMCA. Linda played in bands, orchestras, and jazz groups throughout her high school and college years and discovered the joy of singing when she began participating in vocal ensembles and singing at church. Most recently she has been seen playing the bass guitar in a jazz brass band in the Twin Cities, where she also teaches Music Together classes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Music Together Around the World: <\/b> This past June, Linda Brasaemle, a Music Together Teacher Trainer from Minneapolis, MN, had the opportunity to go to South Africa to work with high-risk communities outside of Durban.  <a href=\"\/blog\/around-the-world-south-africa\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[46,63,44,45,30,40,43],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-contributors","category-on-the-road","tag-community","tag-dancing","tag-hello-everybody","tag-hello-song","tag-music-together","tag-music-making","tag-world-hello-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2675,"href":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/2675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}