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Aaron English founded IYMP in 2015 to support music education for disadvantaged youth in East Africa.

This non-profit organization was formed to support Aaron English’s work with orphans & HIV-AIDS positive kids in Kenya & Uganda. IYMP aims to give disadvantaged youth opportunities for self-expression through music, as well as educational opportunities in music, music business, recording & production. Projects in 2015 have included:

- collecting donations of musical instruments, music lesson book

s & recording studio equipment in North America & arranging for it to be delivered to orphanages in Kenya & Uganda

- helping to establish a music room & raise funds for weekly music lessons at Malayaka House orphanage in Entebbe, Uganda
( http://www.malayakahouse.com )

- helping to establish a professional African drumming & dance troupe at Love to Love orphanage in Ssemuto, Uganda & to raise funds for its operation. ( http://www.lovetolove.ug )

- helping to train the production team in the recording studio at One Vibe Africa - an arts program at an orphanage/school in Kisumu, Kenya
( http://www.OneVibeAfrica.org )

- helping to establish a brass band for HIV/AIDS-positive youth via The AIDS Support Organization in Kampala, Uganda

- co-producing a new record for the "First Lady" of Kenyan music: hip-hop/reggae star Nazizi. All proceeds from this album will go to benefit One Vibe Africa's youth arts programs in Kisumu, Kenya

- teaching music business seminars to aspiring young musicians in the slums of Nairobi, Kisumu & Kampala

23/11/2025

We are so proud of the students that we support at Love to Love in Uganda: their dance team just competed in the national Ugandan Dance Quarter competition.

We’ve only been supporting dance classes at the music school for the past five years…but it’s amazing how far they’ve come. Some of the students are getting hired to dance in professional troupes around the capital city. Bravo, Love to Love team…and keep up the great work!

And thanks and to all of you who have funded our charity over the past ten years so that we can keep supporting these classes!

01/11/2025

Aaron English here, proud to announce that I am a recipient of the Beyond Music Foundation's Social Activist Award for my work as founder/director of the International Youth Music Project.

The recognition is deeply appreciated...and of course the monetary award will go towards our ongoing efforts to support musical opportunities for disadvantaged youth throughout the world.

Thanks to founders Konstanze, Regula, Beat and the late Tina Turner for Beyond Music's support.

I've met amazing musicians all over the planet through Beyond Music and we've made great music together - in fact, they're the reason that my project Echoes of Eden exists. And now this award? I'm thrilled and honored. Thanks again, guys!

09/10/2025

We’re so, so proud of the kids in the dance classes that we support at Love To Love Organization in Kampala, Uganda. We've been working with them for 10 years now. Here they are at the National Dance Uganda competition. Seeing these kids wow people with their skills like this never, ever gets old.

01/09/2025

The music and dance students we support at Love To Love Organization in Kampala had an incredible month of weekly lessons, culminating in a performance at Uganda’s Dance Quarter competition. My oh my how far they’ve come. Don’t they look amazing in these videos?

29/07/2025

Amazing. So proud of what our Ugandan partners, Love to Love, have accomplished in the ten years we’ve been working together.

24/05/2025

We have been supporting the music and dance programs at Love To Love Organization for ten years now. They were just chosen to give a presentation about their music program at this year’s Community Music Conference in Dortmund, Germany! Please join us in congratulating them on being selected.

We’re so proud of them for using music and dance to empower disadvantaged Ugandan youth, especially those living with or affected by HIV.

Bravo William, Danny and the rest of the team! And thanks to all of you that have helped the International Youth Music Project support Love to Love over the past decade.

Address

Rubaga Kabuusu
Kampala
23039 KAMPALA UGANDA

Website

http://internationalyouthmusicproject.org/

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