• Love and Hope Music School

The Love and Hope Music School was set up at City Soleil, Haiti with the vision of educating Haiti children through music and teaching them to serve others in the area. City Soleil is a slum area in Port Au Prince, Haiti’s capital, and has the most dangerous neighborhoods. The children and young people there are struggling with poverty and hunger, and desperately need hope. 

We established a music school at Love and Hope mission center in October 2018 in order to enlighten the children and young people in the village with music, let them understand the beauty of music, and empower them to become music performers and to serve orphanage children of the village and beyond.

We are serving the school remotely in the leadership, and visit them a couple of times a year.  The school has a local director and teachers of instruments including violin, flute, saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, percussion, trombone, guitar, band director. The students learn basic music theory, then take classes on chosen instruments.

Junghwan Lee

• Love and Hope Mission Center

Missionary Simon Kim has built Love & Hope mission center in Cité Soleil, Haiti since the earthquake which occurred in 2010. In addition to the construction work, there are a dozen orphan support ministries, local church building ministry, wedding ministry, vocational education ministry, high schools to cultivate talents who will make a difference in the country.

Simon Kim

• March 2023

• Started Flute class at Delma orphanage

• Started String class at Samsong orphanage for younger students

• January 2023

• Started Clarinet class at Dada orphanage

• Started Brass class at Fontaine mission center

• August 2022

• Second Summer Music Camp with 10 orphanage

• May 2022

  • Started Brass class at Levu

• October 2021

• Supported 14 new Clarinets

• Started Clarinet class in Pino orphanage

• Started recorder class for girls in Delma orphanage

• Hired new violin teacher for advanced Cite Soleil student

• August 2021

  • First summer music camp with 6 orphanages

• June 2021

  • Started Violin and Viola class at Henry Orphanage

  • Started Recorder class in Levu

  • Supported 2 Saxophone, 4 Trumpet, 10 wire music stands, 8 Violin, 4 Viola

• May 2021

  • Cite Soleil class re-opened

  • Started Recorder class 

  • Supported 7 Violin, 2 Viola, 8 Flute, 4 Clarinet, 2 French Horn, 6 music stands

• March 2021

  • 5 orphanages started the Canaan Band program. (Clarinet, Flute, Saxophone, Trumpet, Trombone, Percussion)

• October 2020

  • Established “LOVE AND HOPE MUSIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION” as a Non-profit Organization

• February 2020

  • The first practical exam at City Soleil

  • Hired 5 teachers for Canaan wind instrument school

• December 2019

  • Started Canaan music school

  • Started Recorder class for basic music theory

• November 2019

  • Hired 2 Violin teachers, 1 Cello teacher, 1 brass instrument teacher, and 1 woodwind instrument teacher

  • Divided violin students in City Soleil by performance level. Assigned individual or group music to practice

  • Hired Canaan music school teacher. Hired additional violin and trombone teachers at City Soleil

• September 2019

  • CKUMC supported with instruments and supplies (Dream church instruments, 6 music stands, 20 recorders, and music note)

• June 2019

  • Supported with goods (music stands, violin, string, music)

  • City Soleil music school focused on string instruments

• February 2019

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    Dream church, Pasadena, Los Angeles donated instruments and band uniform, CKUMC donated instruments and supplies, Mr.Shin music school donated T-shirt

  • The first music concert

  • Filmed introduction video (Woorim Hong)

• January 2019

  • Central Korean United Methodist Church started to support music teachers’ salary

• December 2018

  • Started instrument lesson with 5 music teachers

• November 2018

  • Started Recorder class and basic music theory class

• October 2018

  • Started music school in Cite Soleil, Haiti