Empowering youth through music
Derived from the profound recognition of the power of music to generate a deep and real change, the association’s vision is to provide and broaden musical involvement and creation among at-risk youth. We believe that in our way of educating, musical activity can help in building a healthy and harmonious society that is beneficial to all.
Makor establishes and operates music centers which focus on at-risk youth, thereby providing the participants in its programmes a possibility for self-expression, fulfillment and active participation in community life. To adolescents growing up in distressed environments, music offers a positive and meaningful anchor, contributing to both individual empowerment and communal connection and belonging. All of our staff are musicians who are strongly connected to the values of giving, education and guidance, and who aspire to share and spread their knowledge and skills.
As a direct, unmediated art form, music enables expression, an emotional outlet, and human connection. It connects humans, channeling feelings of anger and alienation, helps to shape our identity and ease our pain. Through music, we can learn about ourselves and our environment, tap into our inner creativity and strengthen our ability to express it, in preparation for an active and positive engagement in life.
Our activity
Musical horizon
Musical Horizon is the schools project of Makor. Its purpose is to enable musical activity in schools intended for at-risk youth, or for these youth, who are in normative schools, so that they will have equal opportunities in the field.
Tuned Tone
Makor operates music projects that operate in a format adapted to the locked dormitories of the youth sponsor, and according to what is required in these dormitories.
The Youth Sponsorship Authority is responsible for authoritarian-coercive out-of-home care for teenagers who are in situations of increased risk, delinquency and social deviance.
The music children
The Music Children project is the flagship project of Makor. Its purpose is to establish and operate, throughout the country, music centers to empower youth who are in risk situations and/or those who come from a background of socio-economic distress and to provide them with equal opportunities in the field.
"An artistic work grows out of the intricacies found in a world that cannot be fully illuminated"
Viktor Frankl