Jonas Foundation

A second chance

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  • Past temporary projects
    • «Musik, Theater, Freude» – SOS Children’s Villages, Berlin
    • Camps for children with special needs in Armenia
    • Puppet workshop for the children of Gaza-City
    • Drama Workshops towards a nonviolent culture, Ramallah
    • Dance and drumming classes for youngsters who have been traumatised by violence, Tel Aviv
    • Music therapy for children with autism, Haïfa
    • Russia, St Petersburg
    • Madagascar, Africa
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Aims and Origins

Aims

about_tegara_250_04Jonas Foundation – new hope. (Photo: Peter Rayner)

The Jonas Foundation aims to provide children who would normally not have the opportunity, the chance to receive a broadbased musical education which will also incorporate the areas of dance and drama.

The intention of the music project is to create a sense of stable community for these children, where they may learn social interaction and increased self-esteem through value orientated learning and using the musical skills they are learning to create and participate in concerts and shows that will be performed in the local community.

The Jonas Foundation aims, through music and the performing arts to promote cultural integration and cross-cultural understanding among students and help offer the children a greater perspective in how to fulfil their greater potential, thereby having a better opportunity to transcend many of the difficulties they are faced with in their daily lives. (James Bush, Jonas Foundation)

The Jonas Foundation is a registered Swiss Charity. It is under the surveillance of the Department of the Interior, Berne (Eidgenössische Stiftungsaufsicht, Eidg. Departement des Innern, CH–3000 Bern).

Origins

Founded in 1997, the «Swiss Church Music School, London» was created in response to a need for more creative community activities for youngsters living in the Inner City.
By providing a solid music education, by participating in numerous concerts and shows, by going every year on international tours, the School gave the pupils the opportunity to realise and achieve their full potential and build up self-esteem

The success of the School and the reflection of its impact on the lives of its students gave seed to the idea of creating a foundation in order to broaden the reach of this initiative and to give more children around the world a «second chance» or help to transcend the difficulties in their lives

The ‘Jonas Foundation’ has been founded in March 2003. Projects were launched in London, Paris, Berlin as well as in in Palestine, Israel, Switzerland.

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about_jonah_ikone_heneinA Jonah icon from the coptic church, provided by Fr. Antonious Henein.

News

  • Carolina: Master’s thesis!
  • 4th February, Gstaad: Fundraising Concert
  • Océane Masters degree and Prix Arditi!
  • Jerusalem: Jonas Alumni at the «Alleluia» festival
  • Jonas student at the Davidsbündler Music Academy in The Hague

Special piano concerts – CD available


The CD of a concert of Rati Skhirtladze’s (13 years) and his teachers Natia Beraia Taktakishvlili and Dachi Taktakishvili is available – order here: info@jonasfoundation.org
The concerts took place in Switzerland (Berne, Bioley-Magnoux, Geneva) from 12th to 15th March 2015.
On the program: Liszt, Chopin, Ravel, Lagidze.

Donations

You would like to donate? More informations you can find here.

Middle East

Drama workshops in Ramallah (Kathy Bergen, Faten Khoury) – Read more

Milman Center, Haifa

Musictherapy for children suffering from autism at the Milman Center, Haifa. Read more

Armenia: Integration of disabled children

The Jonas Foundation supports the project “Art for Inclusion” in Armenia. Documentary films: "I am a hero", "If you have wings" and "Only love". Read more

Paris-StDenis, France

The Jonas Music Class at Collège Pierre-de-Geyter, StDenis, France. Read more

London Music School

Read more about our music school.

Puzzle «Creation»

«The Creation», a painting in form of a huge puzzle! A piece of art put together by handicapped children and children from the Bernese Oberland (summer 2007). During the International Year 2008 of the Earth, «The Creation» was hosted by the International Airport Geneva at Gate A8. Read more

June 2006: UN Human Rights Council

Jonas Choir UN Geneva
19th June: The «Jonas Singers» sing with the «Petits Chanteurs de la Cathédrale» at the first Session of the Human Rights Council, United Nations, Geneva. Young singers from countries as varied as Iran, Zimbabwe, Angola, Rwanda, Cameroun, Bulgaria, Germany, United Kingdom, France and Switzerland, have been invited to sing at the first Session of the Human Rights Council.

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