Our Story
This song started playing
back in 2015...
In September of that year, we took the first step: a small nucleus at the “Primero de Febrero” Basic Education Center in the Satélite neighborhood of San Pedro Sula. That day, 42 students began a journey that would not only teach them notes and sheet music, but also open doors to a different future.
Since then, UREMU has continued to grow, adding more nuclei, more students, and more stories of transformation that show how music can truly change reality.
Today, 356 students between 9 and 17 years old attend classes throughout the week at times adapted to their communities. Our nuclei operate in public schools, community centers, and churches that support us in keeping the program mostly free of charge. Through music, we promote values such as discipline, teamwork, and respect, reinforced by talks and daily coexistence that strengthen unity and trust. unity and trust.
Music has the power to changes lives, open horizons and bring hope.
Proyecto UREMU was born in the heart of its founder, Marcela Fernández, when she recognized how, in other countries and cultures, music education is used as a tool to guide children toward the arts, helping them move away from situations of social risk and offering them a path full of possibilities.
Inspired by these examples, and aware of the lack of access to cultural opportunities in many Honduran communities, she decided to create a free, inclusive project committed to music education as a means to help repair the social fabric and to foster the personal and social development of children and adolescents.
We chose it to highlight our cultural identity, folklore, and ethnic richness.
What does "UREMU" mean?
“UREMU” is a word from the Garifuna language, an Afro-Indigenous Honduran people, that means music, song, or melody.
Mission
To provide an accessible music education and practice program that trains, guides, coordinates, and empowers Honduran children and youth to discover and nurture their human potential through music as a tool for holistic development, enabling them to achieve a better quality of life.
Project
Model
Our model includes the following components:
1. Music Training: We offer classes in music theory, recorder, choir, and instruments, which not only develop students’ musical skills but also support their motor and cognitive development.
2. Violence Prevention and Culture of Peace: We provide music education to students, offering them a positive way to use their free time and helping keep them away from harmful activities that could put their lives at risk in negative environments.
3. Social Outreach: We carry out activities in which our students interact with children from private schools, fostering unity through music and showing that, in music, there are no social barriers.
4. Knowledge Exchange: We invite national and international teachers to train and motivate our students to keep moving forward, and we always seek to promote cultural exchanges.