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| Gameli |
March
has finally arrived and the huge Touch A Life team will be here this weekend!!! This is going to be an amazing and busy month
with the finishing of the Art Center and the TAL dedication. All of the families who have built the dorms
and buildings at the TAL Care Center in honor of their child who pasted away
will be joining us for the dedication. We
are all so thankful for the Deal family (Connor’s Song), Art Feeds, and the
design team who envisioned this Art Center and who are working so hard to make
such a special place for the children.
Over the past several months, the children and I have been in an empty
Legos building with only the bare necessities like plastic tables, chairs and
some art supplies. But in just a couple
weeks we will have a fully supplied and creatively designed Art Center with
many resources.
The
Art Center is a place where the children can have a therapeutic environment to
express themselves and continue to heal through the process of creating
art. For children who have been
trafficked and have been through the trauma of abuse and abandonment, art can
be a creative outlet where kids, like Gameli and Jacob, can experience
healing. Through drawing, painting,
sculpture, and many other mediums, the children are able to find their voice
through art and express themselves in pictures when words may be difficult to
find. As the children get lost in the
process of creating, many of them become still and quiet; thus, allowing their
pictures and the images they create communicate their thoughts and
feelings.
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| Benjamin |
Each
child is unique with a different story to tell.
That story may have started out ok but it took a dark turn when they
were abandoned and sold into slavery.
Now free, each child has the opportunity to dream big because the God of
the universe has chosen him or her before the creation of the world for a
specific purpose. The kids now are free
to discover that purpose and know that they have a hopeful future.
Take
a look at the beautiful wax resist paintings the children did last month. They chose to draw their favorite creature
with crayons and got creative with various patterns on their creature. Afterwards, they did a watercolor wash over
the crayons, which resisted the paint, and voila…a colorful masterpiece just
waiting to be framed and hung up in the Art Center gallery once it is finished!
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| Wisdom |
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| Moses |
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| Jacob |
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| Bernard |
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| William |
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| Benedicta |
