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Tajikistan is the poorest of the former Soviet republics, passed through civil war. Poverty and corruption are usual for this country.;;"Singing children" is a non-governmental organization, which activity has begun in 2008 from several musical meetings in countryside. There is no musical education in kishlaks, but children sing difficult songs. Some texts are more than thousand year old. To keep this art, I have organized musical meetings of dwellers from different kishlaks and have written them on DVDs. Children began to work with these video documents. In some months they have returned to me to sing the written songs in a new fashion and to sing other songs.;;Twice a year I come to countryside and I get together singing children from different kishlaks. We organize for them three-day trainings. Our next step is the creation of website www.Dojra.ru devoted to musical art and children's creativity. There are more than 300 our videos in YouTube now and more than 150 thousand viewings of our videos.;;There is a political tension between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan , but in our meetings both Tajiks and Uzbeks participate, they sing some songs together.;;For labor migrants, the majority from which works in Russia, Russian-speaking site www.Dojra.ru is a evidence of the respect for their culture.;;The self-esteem of rural children and youth grows, supported with development of their talents.;;The presentation will contain a lot of video documents.