On a dirty wall in Isreal Lewitez market, Nicaraguan and Canadian youth together painted a mural to celebrate and promote the rights of children of working children. Youth from Nicaragua and Canada project perform a socio-drama about the lives of children. Vladimir spoke in schools, community halls, churches across Alberta on a five-week tour in the winter of 1999 about the social and political dimensions of the struggle facing Nicaragua in the wake of Hurricane Mitch. Lights of the Future on tour for five weeks in the winter of 1998. Lights of the Future is a ten-piece salsa band made up of kids from the street in one of Managua's poorest barrios.
Music provides the context for the development of self-esteem, leadership and personal empowerment.