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THE send-off of 4,000 musical instruments from the Liverpool docks this week in a ship bound for Cuba marked the culmination of a remarkable year-long campaign.
Fittingly the Play For Cuba campaign, which saw donations of instruments from primaries and secondaries across the country, finished where it began — at the National Education Union (NEU) conference.
However, the campaign continues in the guise of the charity that launched it, the Music Fund For Cuba, founded in 2001 to support music and the arts on the island.
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