The Francis Kurkdjian Endowment Fund, always attentive to and committed to people in vulnerable situations, is renewing its support for the 4th edition of the "En musique pour plus d'humanité" project, running from September 2024 to June 2025. This latest installment brings together inmates from Melun prison, as well as exiles and young people in precarious situations from Secours Populaire. They will all take part in dance, singing and percussion workshops. Over the course of a few months, they will create several performances, and together they will take part in the creation of a collective work in which dance, music and song harmonize. Everyone will have a musical role in an orchestra without stigma. Music becomes a vehicle for integration and reducing social inequalities.

In previous editions, over 200 artists have performed at the Grand Palais Éphémère in 2022 and at the Maison de la Mutualité in 2023.

For the 4th edition, the final performance will take place on 13 January 2025 at the Musée d'Orsay.

Prisoners from the Melun prison and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds will create a collective work of percussion, dance and symphonic music, accompanied by professional artists and young musicians for the public performance.

At the same time, the fund is supporting a qualitative study being carried out throughout this period at the Melun detention center:

- to identify ways of measuring the impact of music in prison on people's reconstruction and their apprehension about leaving,

- and to identify the impact of music and replicable initiatives on prison staff, with the aim of turning prison from a place of punishment into a place of reintegration into society by improving their working conditions.