Approximately 350 quetzales per month in materials and snacks at the final workshop

Everyone possesses creative capacities, but the development of these abilities fades from the education system each day. The use of visual arts will be key in creating community posters with health messages for the community and highlighting potential change in the health habits and customs of community members.

The formation of a group of boys and girls from the community will strengthen creative development, while using crafts and visual art as a tool to learn health concepts and habits.

With an underlying theme of recycling and resuing plastic and paper trash, develop children's creativty and artistic expression.

By the end of the project, increase knowledge and ability of children (10 or older) in the community of Chuaq'anaq to reuse plastic, natural and artistic materials to create recycled products that are useful for themselves or for their families.

This project will contribute to the creative development of 15 to 30 children in Chuaq'anaq, while also contributing to their knowledge of health and environmental issues . There will be weekly sessions at the school, where we will learn about community health, sustainable agriculture and environmental education, while strengthening creative development, artistic techniques and self-esteem.

There is no coordination with World Neighbors; this project comes from my own initiative.

I will coordinate with the community school teachers to introduce the workshops in the school. In addition, they will provide me with the classroom space to facilitate the activities once a week.

Examples of workshops to develop creativity in using visual arts:

• Creation of self-portraits with watercolors and tempera paint on cardstock.
• Drawing of healthy food that we like and creation of a story with classmates about food as protagonists (personification of vegetables and fruits). Crayons on cardstock.
• Family portrait in order to broach topic of relatives who are absent due to immigrating north. Crayons and tempera on cardstock.
• Perferred Foods vs. Hated Foods, to learn about ourselves and nutrition habits in the home. Free draw and group presentation.
• Community posters with health messages to put in strategic sites in the community and to decorate the two new classrooms that are being constructed at the school and to give the children an active voice as fundamental members of the community and of future social change. Oil paint on wood.
• Community garden with the group of children, where they create a nursery and plant vegetables to contribute to an adequate and balanced nutrition at home and to be a model patio garden that families can create.
• Create posters of planted vegetables with the nutritional value of each one. Oil paint on wood.
• Washing hands activity to learn to wash ones hands and at what moments it is essential for improving our health. This will include getting some samples of the water used for washing our hands to show the bacteria in the water and to analyze the effectiveness of washing ones hands.