43. School of Art

Three days a week, for 3 hours each of those days children in my village have the options to take art classes at the local school or art.  There is a small fee for utilities and supplies, but as for now there are 60 youth from age 6 to 16 who spend at least a little time in the art school per week.

They offer different classes for all skill types.  There are classes in drawing, painting and sculpting.  The director of the art school gave me a potential project.  Currently the school is located within the elementary school.  There is a large green area in front of the school with some run-down playground equipment.  The director of the art school would like to put in a park with trees and flowers so that it looks nicer and, more importantly, so that he could teach art lessons outside.

My host father's brother and the father of the director of the NGO I work with started this and at least 4 other art schools in our raion.

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