CAF Concert Colombia

In the framework of its Social Action for Music Program, the Andean Development Corporation (CAF) presented the CAF Concert with 400 musicians on stage in the Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Theater, Bogotá, at 7:30pm on October 4. On the occasion of its 35th anniversary, the CAF Concert was the result of the process of training and education in orchestral and vocal symphonic practice sponsored by the institution for over 10,000 children and young people in the Andean region. Music is an ideal vehicle for integrated education which contributes to transforming human beings individually and collectively and tightening the social fabric.

CAF President & CEO Enrique Garcia said that CAF created the Social Action for Music Program in 2000 as an integrated tool for human development which exalts the noblest values of the individual.

The Program is formed by the CAF Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Andean countries with 160 children and young people, aged 10 to 25, from less favored sectors in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. The orchestra is accompanied by the Andean Traveling Conservatory - unique in the world, the Andean Choral Voices Workshops, with the Traveling Lute Workshop, and the recently created Latin American Youth Symphony Orchestra, all of which are useful tools for the integral formation of human beings.

CAF Cultural and Community Development Director Ana Mercedes Botero said that the main purpose of the program was to strengthen human beings and create spaces for social integration using music as a vehicle for recognition and respect for civil, social and spiritual rights.

The CAF musical movement, which dates from 2000, has become a human chain with over 10,000 members, which has been consolidating processes for training for teachers, young people and children in instrumental interpretation, orchestral direction, choral singing and the lute.