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Smart, Beautiful and Important - Teaching Art to AIDS-affected Orphans in Africa's Largest Slum (Hardcover)
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Smart, Beautiful and Important - Teaching Art to AIDS-affected Orphans in Africa's Largest Slum (Hardcover)
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In the slums of Nairobi, artist and volunteer Charles DeSantis
chronicles the creation and implementation of an art immersion
program, and shows how educating children to have another voice
allows them to be heard.In 2006, author Charles DeSantis was
selected with 11 other Georgetown University faculty members to
travel to Nairobi, Kenya, as part of a program called the Kenya
Immersion Group. Once there, DeSantis and the others visited many
aspects of the Kenyan culture, confronting the perils of HIV/AIDS,
poverty, and the challenges of mixed tribal cultures living within
one region. While in Nairobi, DeSantis visited a Jesuit school for
AIDS orphans, St. Aloysius Gonzaga, located in Kibera, the largest
slum on the African continent. In just one square mile, Kibera is
home to more than one million people.At St. Al's, DeSantis and
Associate Dean Margaret Halpin both realized that the children
living in such abject poverty had no form of art curriculum
whatsoever at their school. After inquiring with the administration
about the desire for such a program, DeSantis and Halpin received
encouragement, and so spent the next year developing an Art
Immersion program to be delivered over a two-week period and
piloted in 2008. The program was a huge success, and DeSantis was
asked to return again in 2009 and 2010, implementing updated phases
of the program. He also plans to create the means by which the
program can be offered annually for Kibera students. This book
chronicles the path of the Art Immersion program and its incredible
impact on some of the most impoverished children of Kenya. Its
contents is drawn on the blogs DeSantis kept in 2008 and 2009:
http: //artinkibera2008.blogspot.com/
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