How Music Can Transform Lives Of Refugees

Instruments for refugees in Nauru Image via AMUST

The situation facing asylum seekers and refugees arriving in Australia is as no-one would like to believe. Traumatised by circumstances in their home country, they are afforded little human rights protection at immigration detention centres, and they have to endure difficult and often degrading conditions while waiting for processing.

Simple joys like music that can lift the human spirit are denied them, but one organisation has set about changing that. The Sydney-based Music for Refugees

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