 Music is said to be food for the soul. In today's episode, we speak to a teacher who is using the power of music to cheer and motivate terminally ill patients. My name is Joseph Minor. I'm a music teacher. I teach the easy way to play guitar, ukulele, drums, harmonica. I'm also a volunteer at Nairobi Hospice, whereby I serve the cancer patients with my music therapy. Before I go to a hospital, first I have to know what they are going through. If it's a kids, I have to prepare kids' songs. So that they have to work on my song, kids' song. See myself already there. You see before you go, you have to see yourself there. So I prepare myself, I sing the song, I see myself playing the kids and that's how I prepare. So before I go to a client, I need to be there first. See what they need, what they are going through. So I prepare myself first. Minor says the idea came from one of his clients who owns a clinic and as a result, he ventured into palliative care in order to have a good understanding of the patients. There's a lady, there's a customer, an Indian lady, a doctor who, she was my customer. I taught the kid, her daughter and she has a clinic so she encouraged me to do a palliative care whereby I can understand my patients and also serve them with my music. So I did a palliative care whereby I can understand the cancer patients and other people who are ailing. Palliative care is like understanding what they are going through. Growing up, minor lost his grandmother to the cancer menace and experiences he was too painful. Therefore, this is where he draws his greatest motivation from. I had a close relative. My grandmother died of cancer. But when I was young, I never used to understand but it was painful. I didn't understand why she had to take medicine. It was expensive. And later now, I understood why she went, what she was going through. And it's a very expensive disease. Cancer as an illness, she'll be given much priority, especially by the government, as it is expensive to manage. I wish the government could support the cancer patients because some of them is, like the people I know, that have cancer are very expensive. And you know, sometimes they can't afford the therapy. The medicine is so expensive. So I pray and I ask the government if they could support those guys. Because they have families. They have mothers who have kids in school. They have families who are paying rent. So I ask the government if they could support the cancer patients. I feel they are the people who should be there. I teach guitar the easy way to how to play. And I teach ukulele which is easy to play also. Myself is the easy way whereby anyone can learn. Even I teach Indians. So if they can play, anyone can play. So you don't have to be musical to learn with my system. It's easy. So I play guitar the easy way to how to play. And I teach ukulele which is easy to play also. I learn with my system. It's easy. So I play guitar. I teach guitar. Ukulele. I teach drums. And I play the harmonica. And also I help people solve the aerobics cube. He also teaches the aerobics cube to children and interested grownups. This is the aerobics cube. This helps people to concentrate. It helps you, like when you are stressed. And I help people how to solve it. It's easy. And it's a therapy also. Miners musical lessons cuts across all ages as he now teaches the elderly. Apart from teaching, I do music and movement. Like three-year kids. I play with them songs like nursery rhymes, action songs. It's called music and movement whereby we dance with the kids because those ones three years under they can play. So we sing together and do action songs. So from three years I said and then six years they can start how to learn. And for older guys you're not limited. Even they retired. Like now I'm teaching retired people. Yes, because it's a therapy for them when they sing the songs they want to sing. Today's society honestly I can say there's no subject in some music here. But the real music is in the past. There was lesson on the music. And it was like a story. So when you listen to those music you listen like a story. So you want to listen. And imagine could sit with your kids to listen to that story. But today's music unfortunately you can't sit with your daughter to listen to that story. So that's the challenge. I think it's... We are not going in the wrong direction. I think we are not motivated. I think we need to sit with the older people and the guide us. And we see the future. Like this song will be listened to. Like for example if you sang a song would you let your kids listen to that song in the future. So we should see the future. If I produce will it benefit people. Will it be a lesson. Mina says he gets much satisfaction from the positive impact his musical lessons have on the patients. Music heals. Like even for example when you listen to a music when you sad when you listen to music you feel good, you smile. So it's something that cannot be explained. It has no language. Like you can listen to Spanish music though you don't understand the language. So it's something that is more spiritual and also it heals. I feel part of what they are going through and I feel good. And when I see them laughing when I see them not dull and when I see them communicating it's like I'm part of them. So at times I forget what they are going through and that's my joy. Each time I go for volunteer it's like I feel happy and also my wife is so proud of me. She always encourages me and it's a pride when I volunteer. So I feel happy and also make my family happy. So that's a joy. It's not only me who is happy. Also my wife is happy. So it's a Nina joy which cannot be explained. My kids appreciate me and they play music like me. They play all the stuff I do. They are better than me like on the Rubik's Cube I taught them but they are faster than me. And they play music and my wife plays also. You don't have to wait until you're too old to begin chasing success but rather start early. Something I tell the young people and I wish I could reverse my years back because youth are millionaires already. You know a young person can do anything a young person has brains I mean it's easy for a young person to do anything. It's not like the more you grow older. You see a young person can risk. I remember when I was young I could risk and for example I risked and things would open and I remember opportunities open when you risk. So I'll tell the youth to I mean get involved in anything. It doesn't matter as long as you put your heart on that. If it's a business people will see what you're doing and they'll support you. And there are so many things youth can do. There is opportunity. I mean you can create anything and it flourishes. I have a bright future that's what I'll say but in life it's we direct our lives. Future doesn't happen as we direct our future. It just happens. It's you to direct what you want to do to direct your destination. So future is you also. You direct your future. You know what you want and you know where to go.