GO Campaign Seeks to Help Landfill Harmonic in Paraguay

By Marc Shmuger

Introduction

As a film producer and prior to that as a film executive, Marc Shmuger has helped many deserving projects obtain the funding they need to survive. As philanthropists, Marc Shmuger and his wife, Louise Hamagami, contribute to charities that do work in the city of Los Angeles as well as around the world. Organizations they support include the GO Campaign, which helps bring international funding to local projects all over the planet.

GO Campaign

One of the GO Campaign’s current projects focuses on a town in Paraguay with a garbage problem, which a local teacher is trying to turn into a musical opportunity. Built on a landfill, the town of Cateura has little to work with other than trash. One teacher has begun to build instruments from what can be found in the landfill. He uses these instruments to teach children to play the same classical music learned by students throughout the world.

Conclusion

His project, dubbed the Landfill Harmonic, gives children a chance to learn music, build instruments that can be sold to support themselves and their families, and inspire others in their community. GO aims to raise $30,800 to keep the project running.