Islamabad—The lives of the children, attending an Art Therapy Workshop here at Sport Complex on Sunday afternoon, may not be as gleaming as the colours of their drawings, but the workshop did help the children to see a new ray of hope for future.
Some 3000 orphaned kids of Pakistan Sweet Homes, mostly the flood affected and internally displaced children attended the four-day art workshop aimed at countering negative influences in their lives, and to broaden their cultural interests and understanding.
Universal Women Children Art Therapy Association (UWCATA), and Pakistan Sweet Home, a charity project of Pakistan Baitul Mal arranged the Art Therapy Workshop. UWCATA had been organizing therapy workshops for the flood and war-affected children, traumatized, sexually harassed, internally displaced and special children for the last three years.
The types of workshop include art therapy, dialogue therapy, music therapy, performing art, creative writing and sharing therapy.
Ms. Samina Jamshed conducted the therapeutic art practices with orphan Boys of Pakistan Sweet Homes, who were offered a chance to show their artistic skills by employing crayons and colored papers.
The artworks of the children would then be put on display at an art gallery and “the money generated from the exhibition will go back to these orphan children” told Ms. Jamshed.
Interestingly enough, the art workshop organizers, aiming to fulfill one wish of each children, also compiled a wish list of the which would be fulfilled within next one month.
