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Our Efforts
in Music-for-Everyone Program
At Friends of the Harp, we find ways to make harp and music education accessible in many diverse way.
Please consider supporting our efforts through participation, donating a harp, or making a financial contribution.
With minimal fixed operating costs and 100% volunteer-run operations, we ensure that nearly all donations directly benefit our service initiatives
Music for Everyone Program
We collaborate with NGOs to create diverse experiences that promote knowledge, appreciation and the healing qualities of the harp.
Harp Learning: We typically provide harps and tuition at no cost, while NGOs may charge a reduced fee to cover their out-of-pocket expenses. Overall, these projects are significantly subsidized or completely free to enable end-users to receive harp learning or benefit from healing and rehabilitation sessions.
Harp Outreach: This service is delivered by our volunteers, who perform music and offer harp taster sessions. They visit NGOs at no cost to the organizations, with all harp-related expenses covered by us.
Our Music-for-Everyone Program consists of two interconnected aspects:
Music for Everyone:
Harp OUTREACH
We collaborate with various harp communities, NGOs, and corporations to conduct diverse forms of harp outreach, bringing the harping experience to different segments of society.
Our initiatives include outreach visits, rehabilitation programs, harp taster sessions, and concerts. A typical visit lasts about an hour and is hosted by an NGO's service center, featuring music performances, storytelling, chi-chatting, and brief harp taster activities with the service users. Our visits assist NGOs in promoting social integration by fostering more interactions with their service users Additionally, we sometimes arrange a series of introductory courses to give interested service users a trial experience with the harps.
Many of these programs are initiated by volunteers, and we rely on their advocacy and support to sustain our services.
Here are some outreach collaborators we work with or serve:
Harp scholarship students in a talent show at their school (Sheung Shui)
At Friends of the Harp, we plan with NGOs to create a variety of harp learning and appreciation experiences ranging from harp-tasting sessions, pilot classes to regular lessons.
Many of our initiatives, including pilot programs, have evolved into permanent service offerings by various NGOs. For instance, most of the scholarship classes we sponsored from 2013 to 2017 (see historical milestones) continued for an additional five years or became regular services.
Additionally, participants—whether recipients or supporters—often find these programs to be catalysts for personal growth or new beginnings. Some may even bring these programs to new locations, allowing these music initiatives to develop lives of their own.
It is this spirit of mutual encouragement that has kept us going.
A message from a scholarship student at the SAHK school (Tai Po)
RECENT NGO PARTNERS FOR
Harp LEARNING
2024:
1. Society for Community Organization (Tsuen Wan)
2. HHCKLA Buddhist Chan Shi Wan Primary School
3. Tung Wah Group of Hospitals (Mr Lo Hung Cheuk & Mrs. Lo Wong Yuk Man Neighborhood and Elderly Centre) (Tuen Mun) pilot classes
2023:
1. CNEC Lee I Yao Memorial Secondary School pilot classes
2. HHCKLA Fanling Rhenish Church Secondary School pilot classes
2021:
HK Cancer Fund (North Point & Kwai Chung) pilot classes
2017:
SAHK Leung King Hostel (Tuen Mun)
Since 2017 - Present:
SAHK Elaine Field School
Since 2012 - Present:
HK Federation of Youth Groups Tin Yuet Youth S.P.O.T. (Tin Shui Wai)
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