Non-profit music school in Cairo provides life-changing opportunities for underprivileged youths

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Non-profit music school in Cairo provides life-changing opportunities for underprivileged youths

STORY: Non-profit music school in Cairo provides life-changing opportunities for underprivileged youths DATELINE: Sept. 6, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:11 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of students learning instruments 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): MOHAMED MAGDY, Drummer 3. various of the music school 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): AMIRA ELSEBAAI, Executive manager of the DAR STORYLINE: In the Al-Darb Al-Ahmar district of Historic Cairo, the House of Art and Culture (DAR), adjacent to the perimeter wall of the Al-Azhar Park, is surrounded by dozens of small workshops. Aiming to help the young in this underprivileged area to have a better future, the DAR opened the Darab Ahmar Art School (DAAS) in 2010, a non-profit project that requires neither fees, education qualifications, nor social prerequisites for boys and girls aged 12 to 18 to empower them to have alternative job opportunities other than manual labor. "Our main goal is to help students study music and find suitable jobs with good salaries for

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