Remember when you were five and you chose your best friend based on whether or not they’d share their box of Crayola Crayons with you? Losing my “best friend” of the day and getting rejected wasn’t fun but my crayons meant more to me than PlayDough and Pringles. Every child should have the opportunity go through these growing pains and make the decision for themselves. It could even guide them to their future as an artist or an architecture.
Unfortunately, children in a small village in Maharastra, India called Pusla won’t have the chance to develop their creativity with our help. Are you an artist who can offer your talents while traveling the world? Dreams For Kids and Ayuda Shilip, an Indian Non-Profit, have teamed up together with a mission to provide the environment, training and resources necessary to help Indian children develop their creativity and artistic talents.
Their focus is on encouraging and enhacing art and creativity. Some immediate goals include:
- Building wells for clean drinking water
- Developing plans to build schools where none exist
- Creating art workshops in the schools
- Developing an art exchange program with the US Dream Leaders program
- Supplying adaptive equipment for children with disabilities.
If you have plans of inundating yourself with the beauty and wonders that India has to offer, give a little back by volunteering with Dreams For Kids in India.
