New sounds in the south of Bogota
For many years, the Fundación Pocalana, an aid organization that works with many volunteers in a poor district of the capital Bogota to keep children away from the influence of the drug cartels, has been supported by the youngest Rotary Club in Colombia, the RC Bogota Santa Barbara. Through the Rotary network, it was possible to initiate a collaboration with the Rotary Club of Lucerne Seetal, which culminated in the presentation of two valuable violins from Switzerland to the new director of the music school in a beautiful ceremony on February 22, 2025.

Andrew Zaplatinsky, a retired professional musician from the USA who lives in Bogota, made the violins resound and touched the hearts of those present, who had never heard anything like it before.