Art therapy sessions for children in programs in Port-au-Prince connected with Haitian Ministries will begin this spring and run regularly for at least a year.
CHART’s mission is to help in the psychological well-being of children and families affected by natural and human-made disasters. The organization (Communities Healing through Art) was established in 2004, after a team of artists and art therapists responded to the devastation in Thailand following the Andaman-Sumatra tsunami.
Two therapists will travel to Haiti in early May to assess the needs for the on-going art therapy program. They will stay at Haitian Ministries’ house in Port-au-Prince and visit the 65 girls at Le Foyer des Filles de Dieu (also known as Paula Thybulle’s orphanage) and the 70 children at the meal program run by Madame Samson. Children in the Tierney-Tobin scholarship program will also be involved.
Donations and/or donated new supplies for the art therapy program can be sent to Haiti’s Back Porch, 100 Riverview, Suite 130, Middletown, CT 06457. (The shop is owned and operated by Haitian Ministries. Haitian Ministries can be contacted at: info@haitianministries.org or 860.848.2237 ext.206)
The new supplies needed are:
-- Plain white drawing paper; colored construction paper; tissue paper of all colors
-- Pastels; crayons; colored pencils; water colors; markers (thin & thick); acrylic or tempera paint; and paint brushes of all sizes
-- Tape, glue, glitter, scissors (most for children); liquid starch
-- Children’s smocks of all sizes
-- For a wall mosaic that children will make: sponges; tile adhesive and grout (the dry mixes)
I have friends who work for this mission. It is legitimate.
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