Colored Pencils in Guyana

This January, during our Peace Corps PDM (Project Development and Management) training, my fellow volunteers and I had the pleasure of meeting Hannah and Rachel from the Colored Pencil Project. The Colored Pencil Project is a wonderful non-profit organization that organizes art workshops for children all over the world. These workshops give children the opportunity to express themselves through art (which many of them rarely get to do) by creating self-portraits as well as drawings of their view of the world. Hannah and Rachel trained us on how to facilitate these workshops with the children in our own communities and provided each of us volunteers with up to 65 packages (!) of donated colored pencils that we could then give to the children. So, when the art workshop is completed the kids get to leave with their wonderful self-portraits, their very own set of colored pencils and a big smile. Over the last few weeks, I shared the colored pencil project with all of the students at my school and it was a big success. A big thank you to the Colored Pencil Project and all of those who support it!

Here are a few pictures…



I did one, too!