I. Project Enhance : A one-of-a-kind project for disadvantaged children, with the goal to enhance their physical and mental health, as well as to reduce the negative social stigma and discrimination towards people with disabilities. The physical and mental benefits on these types of therapies have been well studied in developed countries, which include: improving physical strength, muscle control, coordination, discipline, self-esteem, self-confidence, and reducing stress and anxiety, and so on. The objective of Project Enhance is to empower children with disabilities and otherwise marginalized children by training participants in martial arts and encouraging them to express themselves through creative arts, while educating the general public about disabilities. Project Enhance uses karate and creative arts as tools to promote the physical and mental well-being on children with various types of disabilities, as well as to create a safe environment for disabled and non-disabled children to interact with each other.
Issues: Focus is on better mental health, physiological and psychological wellbeing, vocational training, inclusion, self-defense for girls and education
Children in Projects: Currently there are 48 students in our projects. 40 girls based in Pune city are newly included in the project. We are going to train these girls studying in 5th, 6th and 7th grade in martial arts with a blend of creative arts.
Task: We need to strengthen this project with;
· Corporate Partnership
· School Partnership
· Database management of each child with his details
· A model that will help make this project be self-sustainable in its own capacity
· Create a brand name for 'Project Enhance' that can remove the notion of martial arts being an aggressive sports
II. Colors of Life : The Colors of Life project combines the use of technology and art to encourage children to stay in school while learning useful vocational skills and improving their communication and interpersonal skills through the creation of Colors of Life, the bimonthly e-magazine. A trained psychologist assesses each participant on his physical and mental abilities at the beginning of the program. Currently, the children take part in a one-hour session twice a week. At the beginning of the program, the teaching staff takes on a facilitating role to lead the teens to write or draw based on a given topic. The topics are chosen by a psychologist on purpose to encourage the participants to open their mind by exploring their inner-self and to get them to be in a more relaxing and comfortable mode. Their artwork will be featured in the Colors of Life E-zine, which will be a motivation for the participants as well as giving them a sense of pride and increase their self-confidence.
Issues: Focus is on school dropouts, to motivate the child for further education, vocational training
Children in Projects: Currently there are 40 students in our projects. 30 students are based in Pune city are newly included in the project. The first E-zine is published and the pdf is downloadable from the website. :http://colorss.org/new/component/simpledownload/?task=download&fileid=%2FFiles%2FColors_of_life_E_Zine_Vol_1.pdf
Task: We need to strengthen this project with;
· Corporate Partnership
· School Partnership
· Database management of each child with his details
· Website enhancement for this project that can reflect his creative writing
· A model that will help make this project be self-sustainable in its own capacity
· Create a brand name for 'Colors of Life'
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