Were they graduate famous universities?

Are they from power-ful countries?

Is classical musiconly for elite?

No

This orchestra started with 11 kids in a parking garage in Venezuela

Now, I’m going to tell you a story abouthow they became one of the leading orchestras in the world

The El SistemaThe program of social rescue and cultural transformation

Venezuela

suffers with…Social pyramidPovertyCrimes

The aim of El SistemaRemove children from poverty’s snares,

like drugs, crime, gangs and desperation

this instrument, you are going to

change the world.”“With

“El Sistema is undoubtedly one of the most successful music education projects of its kind in the world.” – Time Magazine

“The truth is, I have never felt so moved. Not only because of the emotion of the moment… but because of the quality of the El

Sistema musicians.” –PLACIDO DOMINGO

Serves over 300,000 young people in Venezuela per year, 70% of the participants live below the poverty line

First pointGovernments’

support

Second pointEconomicsupport

Third pointThe power of

Art

3 main points of El Sistema’s success

miserable and tragic thing about poverty is not the lack of bread or roof,

but the feeling of being no-one,the lack of identification

and the lack of public esteem.” - Mother Teresa

“The most

Commit-ment

Generos-ity

Dedica-tion

Leader-ship

Responsibil-ity

Self-esteem Confidence

Insperation

England

Canada

Italy South Ko-rea

• Similar programs more than 25 countries• Many charities started to support music projects for underprivileged children in the developing countries

United States

is suffering a huge spiritual crisis.” -

Arnold Toynbee “The world

Social entrepreneurship modelsbased on cultural and artistic con-

cept

Hidden oppor-tunities

Cross-roads idea