TheraTunes is a universally-beneficial music therapy program designed for young children and children with varying mental capabilities. TheraTunes helps them express and develop their emotional, physical and cognitive skills through music.
Our TheraTunes app (now online at theratunes.org/app ) has been used over 100,000 times across rural and urban India. We have had some incredible, heartwarming interactions with our users.
During 2020 and 2021, the TheraTunes team conducted over 300 Zoom sessions with our students. Students joined from partner organizations like Jai Vakeel Foundation, and villages across India.
TheraTunes has reached over 64,000 students across India. To the right, you will see a video of our app being used in Soda, Rajasthan. Soda is one of the most economically-challenged districts in the country, and we were so excited to launch our app there.
Over the last two years, the TheraTunes team has been spreading joy using music. Some of our favorite moments are shown below:
On March 26th, we launched The TheraTunes Fund with a musical extravaganza in Mumbai. Raising over INR 400k, the funds will be used to spread TheraTunes in villages across India. The video above showcases the concert and the event.
A therapist at Jaivakeel special needs school teaches large movement skills with scarves in the Baklava Turkish Dance
A rhythmic chant that helps students focus on their fine motor skills through contrasting the small quick movements of a fly, with the large slow movements of a crocodile's mouth! We also encourage cognitive and pre-reading skills by demonstrating how a word can be sounded out by its syllables.
In this short clip, students are singing and performing small motor movements about their daily routines.
‘Kya Pehnoge?’ builds students’ fine motor skills (snapping and clapping), developing both categorization and cognitive skills using the various kinds of daily clothing the children may wear.
Hear from TheraTunes' incredible supporters:
Over the last few years, we have been very lucky to work with some incredible non-profit organizations all over the world.
For Over 75 Years, Jai Vakeel Foundation has reached out to thousands Of Intellectually & Developmentally Disabled Children, many of whom are born to the poorest families in the country.
Shridha is a first-of-its-kind school in Central India built with the purpose of serving children with learning difficulties.
Founded over 25 years ago, Calcutta Foundation is one of India's oldest nonprofit organizations, and works across all districts in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Founded in 2012, The Gateway School of Mumbai is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to empowering children with disabilities.
Eminent TT Girls College, located in Village Soda in Block Malpura, District Tonk, Rajasthan aims at providing young women from the rural sector a platform to recognize their talent and focus on their personal and future growth.
Chopra Foundation uses technology to give dignified aspirational work . The Foundation employs 100,000 rural Indians across the country and actively funds bold initiatives for rural growth.
The JBCN International School is a private, co-educational day school, with its branches at Borivali, Oshiwara, Chembur, and Parel in Mumbai, India.
The Mariposa DR Foundation is a non-profit based in Cabarete, Dominican Republic that creates sustainable solutions to end generational poverty
Muktangan was envisioned as an alternative model that aimed to bridge these prevalent gaps and disconnects in schooling by providing an inclusive, student-friendly, community-based model of education within the mainstream system.
The Aditya Birla Integrated School believes in inspiring potential, with an aim to create happy, confident, balanced and independent learners.
The Sound Space is an endeavor to take you on a journey of the phenomenal world of sound and healing.
The Bal Asha Trust is an awarded charitable organization that helps abandoned and marginalized children in the city of Mumbai. It was founded in 1985.
Nirvaan Pandit: I was inspired by the incredible people. I met in the villages we launched TheraTunes in and I wanted to build a new economic model for communal growth. n11t (inspired by the naming technique used by popular, Silicon Valley venture firm a16z) provides micro-grants to incredible rural entrepreneurs. In my research, I explored the use of micro-investments (small investments of less than USD 50 in entrepreneurial projects) as aid. I discussed the potential of setting public policy that uses entrepreneurship to move communities out of poverty. Finally, I compared our approach to the more traditional forms of welfare, and discuss the pros and cons of my approach. My research was published in an international conference. You can read the paper here.