Children and teens in medical treatment receive free personalized songs
BRASIL – Songs of Love — The Medicine of Music, is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing free, personalized, original songs to uplift children and teens currently facing touch medical, physical or emotional challenges. Each CD is professionally produced with lyrics containing the child’s name and references to all of his or her favorite activities, things, people, and pets. The Songs are written and performed in the musical style that the child likes best, by a variety of talented professionals.
The organization was created in New York in 1996 by John Beltzer, and has since reached out to more than 19,000 children in 500-plus hospitals and health care facilities in all 50 states. Since 2007, Songs of Love started to reach children in Brazil, having provided more than 200 songs for the children of Casa Hope, GRAACC, Santa Catarina Hospital, Santa Casa de São Paulo and others facilities.
The songs have often been played to alleviate pain and trauma during painful and scary hospital treatments. The song recipients have played their “songs of love” in all kinds of situations and settings such as car trips to the hospital, show and tell at school, for family and friends in person or on the phone, and even for the doctors and nurses. The children have their “songs of love” always available to them whenever they are feeling down.
To learn more about our work please visit our Web site, www.songsoflove.org.br .
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