Our arts-exchange-project is located in Benaulim. In coordination with our mobile-library-project BeBook, volunteers of Tara Trust venture out into different projects across Goa and do weekly workshops in creative arts, crafts, theater, etc.
Often, people underestimate the importance of creative involvement with deprived children, since there are no “instant results” that can be measured. Instead, it is a process, investing in the future of these children: they are gaining trust, build self-esteem and experience joy while learning. The children we are working with rarely experience that they are important, that their opinions matter or that their talents are supported. We give them value. Together we want to create new perspectives to learn and motivate them to change the course of their lives.
To follow our current news and activities in the arts workshops, please follow Anweshas blog!
http://www.paintingthemwithhappiness.blogspt.com
 
 
   
  
Our readings and workshops are conducted in cooperation with local institutions and partners, such as the mobile school for slum children run by Don Bosco, the orphanage Care and Compassion, the orphanage Hamara School, the Loyola School for marginalized children, Daddys Home (for mentally and physically challenged children), etc.
We further initiate creative, intercultural projects with children in other countries. In 2010 we did an arts exchange project with tribal children of Madhya Pradesh with a school in Berlin (Germany). From May 2011 onwards, we involve 1000 of our kids across the country to create white cranes and stories for Japanese children, affected by the Fukushima disaster. To learn more about the Fukushima arts exchange project, please contact Dr. Katharina Poggendorf-Kakar at: tara.trust.india@gmail.com
“Dream Journey”
 
 
 
Canvas painting, Nov. 2nd, 2010, workshop by Hanni, Laura, Lorna
and Katha
childrens portraits
 
 
 
 
 
 
Self-portraits by children of Care and Compassion, from a workshop
held by Lavina Melwani
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