Julian Lloyd Webber: “Using the safe haven of the symphony orchestra, 300,000 Venezuelan children are involved in the scheme at any one time, and many claim it has saved them from a life of delinquency and crime. … There are currently 208 local centres or ‘nuclei’ and another 40 are expected next year … [the nuclei often have] waiting lists of more than 1,000 children clamouring to join.”