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Since June 2009 I have been living and working in Ecuador, where I am volunteering as an Artistic Workshop Leader with the Charlotte Miller Arts Project, working with street children in the port city of Guayquil .
My trip and work with the project, is being guided through ICYE.
The recent relationship between ICYE-UK, JUCONI and The Charlotte Miller Art Project has been set up in order to provide a more sustainable, regulated and experienced workforce to help support this project.
The Charlotte Miller Art Club project was started three years ago under the auspices of Baroness Miller. It was her hope that through this project her daughter Charlotte’s vision of art as a medium for communication and building self esteem could have an impact on street working children and their immediate communities. Over the course of the past three years, this has remained the core focus of the clubs while other elements and goals have been added.
In its second year of existence, the project incorporated the theme of Rights of the Child. The children learned about their basic human rights whilst focusing on expressing their thoughts and feelings using different art techniques (carbon pencil, coloured pencil, paint (tempera) on poster board and fabric).
Now, in its third year, the project has four main goals: improving children’s communication levels, increasing levels of cooperation in groups, increasing participation and decision-making so they feel both a sense of ownership of the space and a sense of belonging, facilitating the expression of their ideas, feelings and beliefs through art.
In its next phase it is hoped that the therapeutic potential of art can be further harnessed to provide an opportunity to work through their more difficult experiences and particularly the extremes of violence they have witnessed and experiences at home and in their community.
Objectives:
➢ Sustain the project so that the children can continue to benefit from the space that the Art Club provides
➢ Continue to implement activities that reinforce the four goals (communication, cooperation, participation and self expression)
➢ Evaluate activities and structure and make recommendations so that the clubs can continue to grow and serve the changing and emerging needs of the children.
The Charlotte Miller Art Project is a nationally and internationally recognised project that works with street children in the Ecuadorian port city of Guayquil. The city has extensive urban slum areas, where most of the children live in extremely hard circumstances.To date, hundreds of the city’s street children have been given the opportunity to participant in valuable arts-based educational activities.
Ecuador boards Peru and Columbia in Latin America.About 40% of the national income goes to the richest (5%) of the population. 79% of Ecuador’s population live below the poverty line and 52% live on less than $2 a day. (INNFA, 2004)
The project works through an international street children’s charity JUCONI (Junto con los ninos – together with the children). Street involved children are expected to assume responsibly for income generation, domestic household tasks and child care from a very early age. These children often have no time available in their busy day for recreational and creative activities and in most cases their parents do not understand the value or importance of expressive activities and stimulation for their child’s full development.
The Charlotte Miller Art Project gives street working children aged between 5 and 18 years the chance to express themselves through art based activities, which develop their self-esteem, confidence and their ability to communicate with others. The project works in collaboration with ICYE (international Cultural Youth Exchange) to source and train volunteer art project leader’s t travel to Ecuador for 6 and 12 month long placements. To date the children have experienced making artwork by drawing, painting, model making, photography, video, performance, fashion and story telling.
The children’s artwork is used within their local communities to advocate an understanding of the issues affecting their lives. Their artwork has also been exhibited in the International Gallery of Children’s Art in London and the museum of Children’s art in New York, raising awareness amongst international audiences.
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“CMAP works with ‘the process’ at the core of its practice. The children and young people who attend CMAP workshops gain far more than creative and expressive skills. Workshops offer a space to explore their needs, gain confidence, make friendships, develop self-esteem and self-reflection. The artwork is secondary to the empowerment that the children and young people experience.”
Lynn Weddle, Project Manager, 2008
CMAP aims:
To develop communication skills and self-expression for hundreds street-involved and highly marginalised children and youth through community-based art activities and one-on-one sessions.
CMAP Objectives:
* To run artist lead workshops and sessions in the children’s own environment using a variety of mediums.
* To encourage self-expression and self-reflection through making artwork and group interaction.
* To provide a safe, comfortable environment for children and young people to express themselves through a variety of mediums.
* To challenge existing stereotypes and prejudices of street involved children by giving the children themselves a voice.
* To promote and showcase the children’s voice through exhibitions, web media and publications.
* To work in partnerships with other organizations regionally, nationally and internationally in the delivery and promotion of educational and community workshops.
* To offer artists and project facilitators professional development within the arts education field.
For further information please visit...
www.charlottemillerartproject.co.uk
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