We talked with some of the students who will be working with us in the next few weeks on digital stories and they told us that they have never been to the movies. Due to the hard work that they have put in already, the projects that they will have to do, and that everyone should have the opportunity to go to the movies, we have decided to try to take them.
A movie ticket costs about 6 mil pesos or $3 US. Plus we are thinking we should probably buy everyone some popcorn to complete the experience so we need about $40. This is a great opportunity to donate just a few dollars (ie sponsor a kid's ticket/popcorn bag) and bring what for many of us is an 'everyday' activity to the TdP kids who have never gone.
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- Taller de paz
- Taller de paz is a joint initiative between students of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and La Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia to work with children of internally displaced families ages 10 - 14 living in the outskirts of Bogotá. The focus of the program will be to encourage peaceful resolutions to conflict and self-expression through photography, art, and digital storytelling using these mediums as empowerment tools for the kids to explore their own environments as well as their own meanings of peace. The program will also contribute to the kids’ educational development by fostering skills in reading, writing, and English studies. Each participant will complete a final cumulative project in the form of a photo portfolio or digital story. These projects will be exhibited both locally and globally in art galleries, at home in Colombia and in the United States, to raise awareness of the conflicts suffered in Colombia as well as to fund-raise to support the future of the program and subsidize the educational costs of our program's participants. Our goal is to make Taller de paz into a sustainable program that permanently serves the displaced community of Bogotá.
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