"Each human being has the eternal duty of transforming what is hard and brutal into a subtle and tender offering, what is crude into refinement, what is ugly into beauty, ignorance into knowledge, confrontation into collaboration, thereby rediscovering the child's dream of a creative reality incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life the servant of love."

The international Yehudi Menuhin Foundation (IYMF) was created in Brussels in 1991 by Lord Menuhin (1916-1999) as a non profit making international association. The main aim of this foundation is to carry out projects with a similar social objective: give a voice to the voiceless.

The main project of the IYMF is the Mus-e project, a multi cultural programme set up in schools and aiming to give children a source of balance through the stimulation of their creativity and the practice of art.

The Mus-e project is spreading more and more around the world. Over 13 years, Mus-e became an international project present in 16 countries.

Today, the Mus-e project has crossed the oceans and it has reached the fertile lands of Brazil. At the beginning of 2003, musical activities in Boca do Rio, Salvador, were started. Mus-e Brasil is a pilot-project undertaken in the framework of the Porto de Minas infrastructure - Oficina da Capoeira and will be extended to schools in the near future. Several artists from various disciplines propose artistic workshops to the children twice a week. Beyond this, the project also manages swimming supervision, Portuguese and maths. This project therefore provides an environment allowing the children to have an alternative to "hanging around in the street".

This international dimension creates a dynamic allowing the setting up of new contacts as well as an artistic collaboration worldwide. This reinforces solidarity, respect of the other and mutual understanding. Mus-e aims to bring together different cultures through a creative collaboration, which stimulates mutual respect and open-mindedness.