Dreams Workshop. Turkey
Since its launch in 2003, the Dreams Workshop program, run by the Educational Volunteers Foundation of Turkey (TEGV), has provided disadvantaged Turkish children with quality non-formal education, while training older youth to serve as volunteer mentors and teachers.

About to enter its second phase, the program aims to expand its reach through 10 new urban centers, as well as in more remote parts of the country. In 2008, there were 13,500 new participants, with a total of 30,720 children and youth benefiting from Dreams Workshop activities.

Through the Recycling Dreams exhibition, held at Istanbul Ataturk Airlines International Terminal in September and October 2008, participants learnt about the importance of environmental protection and recycling. The Recycling Dreams exhibition showcased two and three dimensional artwork, which the children made by re-using waste products.

Going Further, Senegal
Going Further project has three components, Music, radio and ICT. The music component, Tundu Joor, aims to promote youth rights using music as a channel. Tundu Joor involves artists and child rights professionals teaching young people how to produce music professionally (creating, producing songs and concerts) while raising awareness of children's rights.

Key messages aiming at improving communities and children’s lives are incorporated into the songs produced by youth and professional artists. Prominent Senegalese and African artists are closely involved with the program, where issues that affect young people are identified and articulated in music, which is a mix of traditional Senegalese rhythms, and hip-hop, R&B and jazz.

The children involved perform in concerts attended by thousands of others, with the aim of raising mass awareness of the importance of children’s rights. As part of Going Further, Radio Guneyi (RGY) in Senegal broadcasts hundreds of youth and reaches hundreds of thousands of people nationwide weekly

In 2008, approximately three million children and adults were exposed at least once to messages on rights of the child through children’s radio broadcasts and musical events. Similar messages were delivered to around 43,000 adults and children who attended concerts and shows across Senegal.

Child participation was a key aspect of the project, with 1,008 children (including 504 girls) participating directly in presenting live radio programs and 611 school children producing radio broadcasts on child rights.

The Multimedia component of the project is aimed at setting up multimedia spaces in science and technology schools to increase the use of ICT in education. The project currently provides ICT learning resources to 143 teachers and 6,000 students.

Listen to and download some of these songs here.

BUMP Records, California
This approach of tying music into meaningful youth development is also used for young people in the San Francisco/Oakland area of California in the U.S. The Bay Unity Music Project (BUMP) Records, a collaboration with the Bay Area Video Coalition, is a music performance and production program for Bay Area youth ages 14-19.

With the help of professional instructors, young people learn to compose music and lyrics, DJ, and produce and record original music using industry-standard technology. BUMP producers also get hands-on entrepreneurship training and experience in producing, branding and promoting albums. Participants have use of music production software and a professional-quality rehearsal and recording space free of charge.

Follow this link to hear the BUMP records music

Children's radio, Africa
The Kids Wave project, run by Plan, aims to increase the amount of quality programming for and involving children across Africa. Radio made for and with children can help with education and development. It gives children a platform to express themselves and take concrete actions to improve their lives and the lives of other children in their country. It can also help raise awareness on the rights of the child.

Kids Wave has been established in Senegal, Benin, Burkino Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Togo. The program funds the production of radio shows and provides training for children and radio hosts. It also runs children’s club activities, events and media projects.

See more of our community involvement projects at http://www.nokia.com/corporate-responsibility/nokias-cr-map.