Music & Resilience develops music resources within psycho-social, health and cultural frameworks, as a protection factor for marginalised communities such as the Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon, the displaced people in Ukraine, and others

Community music

There is no such thing as an a-musical person: Community Music places the person who is learning at the centre of the experience

Psychosocial music activities

Music workshops to stimulate nurturing interactions and positive social change that expands to the surrounding society

Palestinians
in Lebanon

The daily living conditions of the Palestinian community in Lebanon are probably the hardest in all the Palestinian diaspora

Music & Resilience is an international cooperation project created by Associazione di Promozione Sociale Prima Materia (PM, Italy).

The project was born in 2011 in collaboration with the Palestinian-Lebanese partner National Institution of Social Care and Vocational Training (NISCVT, Lebanon; Arabic name Beit Atfal Assumoud), to support and develop psycho-educational resources to protect the well-being of children and adolescents who are born, live and grow up in traumatic conditions in Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps.

In 2024 the project expanded its scope to other contexts, such as Ucraine (in collaboration with Mediterranea Saving Humans, Italy) and other refugee communities.

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Music & Resilience spoke at the conference "music, war, peace" held in Florence on Saturday, 22nd November.

Alberto presented the project, talking about the community approach to music as a means of cultural and psychosocial support for marginalised and deprived communities, with particular reference to our experiences with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and displaced people in Ukraine, and shared this with other projects with a variety of approaches. • read more

August 12, 2025

M&R in Ukraine: July 2025