BEBOOK and ART WORKSHOPS

Don Bosco, Zuarinagar, Vasco, our new venue, enthralled us with the creative and talented children of Zuarinagar slums. We have started our workshops with these lovely kids and they seem to be enormously gifted. We did paintings and frog craft with them. They don’t leave a chance to showcase their flair and always grab us with their dances and songs. Juhi and Anwesha are all up in arms to accept their challenge and drive them in their creative efforts.

Art workshops continue in Daddy’s home with Anwesha, Sophie and Beni. The children are exploring art in different forms like painting caps, painting with music and painting picture outlines. These little angels are truly magical!

Our volunteers from Rotaract Club of Ponda are doing lovely experiments with the kids in Matruchaya. This time there were flowers from tissue paper, frog craft and they also celebrated Girls day with the little girls in the orphanage.

Hamara School continues to absorb in Arundhati’s brilliant new ideas. This time there were lovely stories about elephants and activities that helped the children to project their emotions. This was followed by crafts where Anwesha taught the children to make elephant masks.

Anwesha and Sophie came up with a lovely idea of making a fish aquarium with the children of Don Bosco, Margao. Well! Not form glass but Thermocol. Children painted fish, plants, sea animals, shells etc and we hanged them in the Thermocol aquarium. Children enjoyed the fish tales and information that flowed through this workshop.

Yoga classes continue in Daddy’s home and Seby is working hard to help the children in every possible way. The children are loving it too!

Sophie finished with her ‘Prejudice and their influence’ workshop. She will soon leave for Germany. It was lovely to have her with us. She would be dearly missed!

BEBOOK and ART WORKSHOPS

Workshops re-start at Don Bosco, Margao. The children are absolutely happy to see us back.

Art Workshops continue in Daddy’s home, Matruchaya and Hamara School. Our volunteers came up with lovely ideas like thumb painting on the eve of Independence Day and sensory board for the special children of Daddy’s home.

Arundhati and Anwesha have also been conducting book readings, picture drawings and story enactments in Hamara School and Daddy’s Home.

Sophie, a friend from Germany is doing a lovely workshop with the children of Care and Compassion based on the theme, ‘Prejudices and their influence’ through the medium of story, theatre and games. Arundhati has also joined in with her. The kids are exploring themselves and understanding a serious topic like prejudices in an amicable way.

The Yoga classes going on regularly and Seby Akkara is doing a lovely job with the kids of Daddy’s home.

OUR TEAM GROWING:
Bennita Ganesh joins us at Daddy’s home. She will do readings and also conduct workshops for the lovely kids of Daddy’s home every week. Welcome, Beni!

Juhi Pandey has joined our team of Tara Trust. She will be handling the 1000-Crane-Project (Fukushima), among other things. In future, she will further initiate a project for women. Welcome, Juhi!

BEBOOK and ART WORKSHOPS

Art Workshops continue in Matruchaya and Care and Compassion.

Johanna is back from her tour to Delhi and Ladakh with successful workshops and lots of wonderful memories. She starts the Fukushima projects in Goa. The first one was held at Care and Compassion and the next in Loyola slum school, Margao. The workshops will continue elsewhere.

We start our projects back in Daddy’s home, Margao. To begin with, we did a butterfly craft project with the children.

Arundhati and Denise continue with wonderful new ideas in Hamara School. They did a lovely snake workshop where they taught the kids about some dos and don't when it comes to snakes. Dr. Aparjita gave a PowerPoint presentation on the plight of snakes at the hands of snake charmers and the trauma they experience during Nag Panchami. Arundhati and Denise also did some brilliant workshops where children made animals and nature objects from wheat dough. Arundhati also had a lovely workshop where she explained the children about medicinal plants.

Yoga classes continue in Daddy's home, Margao where Seby Akkara is doing 2 sessions each for the kids. The kids are responding very well!

A SUCCESS STORY!
Tara trust is extremely happy as Sayed a small boy from Loyola slum school who was about to lose his vision due to problem in both his eyes has been cured and can see clearly from one of his eyes now. Our efforts have paid off. Thanks to the engagement of our volunteer Laura and the doctors who attended him and gave him back his eye sight!

BEBOOK and ART WORKSHOPS

Workshops  continue in Hamara School, Panaji with Denise and Arundhati doing wonderful readings and innovative workshops with the children.

5th June 2011
We start back after the summer vacations. We have a new collaboration with the Rotaract club of Ponda who join in for the workshops and volunteer for us. Our first workshop after vacations was in Care and Compassion where we did lovely frogs from old CDs. We have decided to go all out in support of nature and environment this season and all our workshops will also be planned in that direction.

After the frogs, it was the turn of the butterflies to fly high…

19th June 2011

We start workshops at one of our new Venues in Ponda- ‘Matruchaya’. It is an orphanage taking care of almost more than 100 children and is one of the oldest orphanages in the state. We would be doing workshops there with the primary standard batch of girls. We started with making Paper turtles at our first workshop.  The girls are very enthusiastic and we look forward to share lovely moments with them every 15 days. Rotaract club of Ponda will be our common partners throughout the year. 

JAMYANG SCHOOL:
Crane and T-shirt painting Workshops continue in the Jamyang school with Lena and Johanna.

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