Let us introduce you to the most unique project occurring today in Africa - African Heart Art, a project that was created after the founder travelled around the world, and connected very strongly to Africa.
She found that more than food, clothes, medicines and education the people need attention, love and care, that they cannot provide for themselves due to traumas and other life experiences that we, who live relatively "normal" lives, cannot begin to fathom.
Whilst working with the children at "Dzanja La Chifundo" orphanage in Malawi and learning their personal stories, She found it hard to believe that they have never spoken or released what they have been through, though these are known to be issues that can harm one's development and progress. Spending time at the orphanage and viewing western people coming and giving gifts and supplies, for which in return the children dance and sing, She noticed it was not helping them reinforce their feeling of pried, security or self respect, for they are getting the help just for being a child born in Africa.
African Heart Art works on these issues by giving the children an opportunity to release their traumas through professional therapeutic art, and in return for their creations, they receive all the supplies needed. In this beautiful way the children are creating with their own hearts and hands, a source of food for the hungry, medicine for the sick, and a chance at a proper education, while reinforcing their sense of pride and dignity.