A UAE Student's Song to the Covid-19 Affected

The team at WhichSchoolAdvisor.com have been watching the Covid-19 pandemic make huge changes to our world at lightning fast speed. As parents, our whole team share your alarm, just as we also share your hope and inspiration in our own children, and those we have met in our role as the source of education news and school reviews.

This article is part of an editorial series on andra tutto bene

By Jenny Mollon

First Published:

Tuesday 17 March, 2020

Updated:

10th Aug 2022

In October of last year, year we hosted our annual "Young Musician of the Year competition" in the UAE. One of our very talented finalists, Emily, has joined with us today to share a message of hope from the youth of the UAE with her recording of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow".

Emily sings beautifully in English, but we would love to hear this popular song sung in your mother tongue. If you would like to record this song in and share with us, please email [email protected]

All over the world, children and young people have united under the message ‘Keep up the Fight’. For children in China, where the movement originated, the message is “Jiayou”.

When Covid-19 began to take hold in Italy, Chinese children and young people passed on this slogan of positivity to their counterparts in Lombardy and then across the country. Today, all around Italy, the words “andra tutto bene” (all will be well) now accompanies beautiful rainbow drawings made by children to brighten their locked down neighbourhoods, and to give hope to anyone who sees them.

Jiayou. Andra tutto bene. Keep up the fight.