ArT for DEVELOPMENT #OrigamiArt #exposure #fun

So we had two lovely young ladies who were visiting Zimbabwe from their home Australia come in and volunteer their time and skills.

One lesson I continue to learn is the power and advantage of networking~ 

They do say that YOUR NETWORK = your NET WORTH ☆☆

I met these two lovely ladies through their mother - yes their mother. A lovely, intelligent, warm woman who's based in Zimbabwe due to her husband's work. She was helping work on mentorship material for the individuals who continue to come to me for guidance on how to start up and or run their charitable initiatives. I will touch on this in a future post. 

Anyway her daughters were soon coming down and she thought they might like to spend time with my kids...

The rest is history :) •••

••• This session was one of the most chilled, easy going, fun sessions we've had yet.

After overcoming their initial shock and intrigue at the white skinned young ladies presence the kids got comfortable and warmed up to the kind, gentle open spirits displayed by the volunteers. 

#EXPOSURE is everything I believe.
                   And I want my children to get as much of it as possible as soon as possible too:

Exposure is often the difference between
■ Confidence and timidity
□ Knowledge and ignorance
■ Warmth and hostility
□ Culturedness and ill manneredness
■ Self worth and Arrogance
□ bold innovation and limited thinking

Zimbabwe's children need exposure.

Besides the two Australian ladies we also had local Xtreme Team facilitators present as well as a lovely young lawyer lady.

Its not easy taking 52 children through the meticulous, step by step formation of paper cranes. Origami birds.
But the ooh s and aah s and frantic happy flapping of the birds wings at the end  of the session made the exhausting exercise worthwhile.

We also wanted to make sure that each child goes home actually knowing how to make a paper crane on their own. Perhaps with the ambition of making a thousand paper cranes, as they heard in the story of the little ill Japanese girl who was told that if she made 1000 birds her wish her for good health would be granted.

One can make origami birds, dogs, flowers, frogs almost anything and Origami besides being lots of fun is actually known to exercise the brain cells and is a good practice for coordination and intellect.

I don't know if I would ever be driven to create one thousand paper birds out of passion, or for brain exercise or even out of boredom!!  but I do know that origami is a worth while art form that brings out beautiful little pieces worth keeping.

im glad my children have learnt how they too can become Japanese art artists.

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