heARTS!!

Hearts heeling program: The ISK Healing Arts Program is a new program at ISK, that my bestfriend Nandi Blanchard has created, and which I’m helping to fund and develop, in which we will make use of the arts in order to help children in recovery in various hospitals around Nairobi through therapy. By using visual arts, musical (auditory) arts, as well as dramatic arts, we will undergo creative activities and exercises with children in order to stimulate them mentally and perform therapeutic relief. We will raise our own money for our own supplies and equipment and become a self-sustained organization. This is a very new group so we haven’t really done much yet, we met a few times to discuss meeting time and such. 

The first real meeting we had was this week Wednesday after school with Mrs. Elleby. For a first meeting I have to admit that it was so much fun. We basically talked about a lot of things including our fears/hopes/expectations for the group, we played at some games with our eyes closed, Mrs. Elleby discussed how important it is to be around children as she knows so much about it. We all had the same ideas, we hope that this will be a successful group, that people will join because they want to and because they like the arts perhaps, rather than joing just for CAS hours, we want to be able to connect with the kids, we want to help them and put smiles on their faces etc...

I hope that we will achieve all our goals and that going to the hospitals and entertaining the kids will actually make them happy, also that we raise our own money to get our own supplies and that we advertise this group as much as we can, as I think it is an amazing idea and community service group that is growing.

We will also meet for the next 3 Wednesdays and then after the Christmas break and hopefully by then we will be ready!