The Kampala Dream House

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Amidst the slums of Kampala, MLISADA (Music, life skills and arts for destitution alleviation) is a success story. It is a children's home giving street kids a chance of a musical future. Sarah Taylor visits this remarkable children's home in Kampala, Uganda, to speak to teachers, former pupils and international brass players that help support it.

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0:00.0	Thank you for downloading from the BBC.
0:04.0	The details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use, go to BBCworldservice.com slash podcasts. And now on the BBC World Service our documentary The Kampala Dream House.
0:19.2	I'm Sarah Taylor. Join me as I meet the musicians and teachers who are helping orphaned and
0:25.0	abandoned children learn brass instruments in Kampala, Uganda.
0:29.9	It's brass band practice time here at the Emlisada Children's Home in Kampala.
0:38.0	A music teacher, Franka, is taking his young pupils through their paces.
0:42.0	I was just trying to tell them. is taking his young pupils through their paces.
0:43.0	I was just trying to tell them not to forget how to see it because you're sitting when it's bad it affects you.
0:50.0	And to get it to sit well so that they can produce a very good sound.
0:54.0	One, two, three, and go. I've got got so many songs, music that I listened to but one of my friends.
1:09.0	I've got so many songs, music that I listen to, but one of my favorite is called Supertopper by Abba.
1:18.0	Whenever I listen to that song, I remember everything that I've passed through and it makes me stay focused on what I decided to do so that I don't go off of road.
1:30.0	Whenever I listen to that song I feel like each child should be treated the same.
1:35.0	They don't want to see means but it just shows it soft that it is a
1:55.3	Lovey song, happy song.
2:21.0	Nana, nah, nana, like I don't. One of the last things I'd expected to hear in a rundown part of Kampala was a brass band arrangement of the Abba hit Supertrooper. It's a favourite of teacher and euphonium player Franka Kalima who's been involved
2:26.0	with the Emlissada Children's Home for 16 years. The home stands at the end of a very dusty
2:32.3	track riddled with potholes, a one-story building protected
2:36.6	by rusting iron gates. Once inside the compound, I couldn't believe my ears. A brass band of children aged from 9 to 19 were giving
2:47.6	this Swedish hit there all. Franker now visits as a music teacher, but he first arrived as a resident many years ago after living rough from the age of two.
3:05.6	My mom abandoned me when I was two years and then I started living with the community.
3:11.2	They lived with me up to when I was five years and then that's one of the ladies that
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