Music is an important communication tool across most cultures. In Senegal, children use music to express their feelings and to speak out for their rights and the rights of others.
To help spread awareness of these children's rights, Plan has collaborated with the Senegal Music Professionals' Association (AMS) and the government's regional cultural centres to launch the children's music project - Tund Joor.
Talented children and some professionals have been selected to represent all eleven regions of Senegal, with a wide range of music being covered in all the main national and regional languages for a multicultural mix that broadly expands children's social and cultural horizon, and gives them motivation.
The young musicians have also received training about the rights of children, giving them the aptitudes and confidence to express their rights through different songs or music.
These musical creations have resulted in recordings and an album that has recently been completed for imminent release.
The blooming talent being created is giving children opportunities to create new paths and allowing their voices to be recognised and heard, many for the first time.
