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Art has its own unique and special way of spreading self expression and magnifying the voices of communities around the world. TPP grantees incorporate all forms of art and encourage individuals to create with their mind, body and spirit.<\/p>\n
Whether it is a workshop to empower youth or a training system to amplify the skill set of hopeful adults, art is always present. The grantee projects below beautifully demonstrate how art can be perceived, and that fostering communities and uplifting individuals is an art form in and of itself. When people are supported and given the resources to excel, the desire to explore, spread and create art becomes more valuable and present in everyday life.<\/p>\n
Spee Arts Gallery Cultural Centre<\/a> is a project that is engaging vulnerable displaced youth as peace advocates in the Northwest region of Cameroon. This project will address the recent and ongoing socio political crisis in the two Anglophone regions of Cameroon. Many souls and properties have been lost, some people have lost their hard earned jobs; others their right to education, and a fair amount of young girls becoming early age mothers. In recognizing this, Spree Arts Gallery Centre is determined to mitigate these negative actions.<\/p>\n In doing so, they began with engaging twenty vulnerable youths in an artistic training to help strengthen and sustain their lives, and create peace advocates. Their motive behind this initiative is to engage youth in an arts training to let them forget some of their losses suffered as a result of this ongoing crisis. Additionally, they promote peaceful coexistence in diversity. The seed grant from The Pollination Project is important to help acquire materials and accomplish the program\u2019s goals.<\/p>\n This project<\/a> was born from a collective of four women. What moves them is the desire for ceramics practice in the Kaing\u00e1ng Indigenous Lands of RS\/Brazil to become part of their daily life, and a network of collaboration among the Indigenous Lands (ILs). Ceramics is the fundamental aspect of their culture, and nowadays it is only residually produced and almost disappearing throughout centuries of plundering and loss of territory. This recovery is vital, because the ceramic practice can reestablish ties with the earth and the land, and revive the memory of the Kaing\u00e1ng people in the present moment.<\/p>\n In the future, the ceramics will constitute a source of income for the Kaing\u00e1ng. From the knowledge of the ancestors, the Kanhg\u00e1g K\u00f3fa (elders) who still master this practice, will teach the younger relatives moving between Kaing\u00e1ng ILs of Rio Grande do Sul. The TPP grant will pay for the transportation of the elders between the ILs and the possibility of making a website in three languages \u2013 Kaing\u00e1ng, Portuguese and English in order to reach more people, especially the Kaing\u00e1ngs.<\/p>\n In Kenya there is a gap between the training that teachers receive at colleges and the on the ground curriculum, especially amongst the changing trends in digital technology in education and curriculum reforms. There is a need to continuously train teachers to conform to the new trends and improve the quality of instructions in the classrooms.<\/p>\n Building Staff Capacity In Schools<\/a> organizes workshops and pieces of training on capacity buildings to try to reach out to the specific needs of teachers, including competency-based curriculum reforms and digital technology education.<\/p>\n Integral Artistic Project in Favor of the Gender Equality<\/a> project believes in art as a way to work with people not only in terms of culture and entertainment but as a vehicle and tool to take messages that help them to raise awareness about social problems.<\/p>\n Nowadays 9 women die every day in Mexico due to violent causes and 6 out of every 10 have suffered violence at some point in their lives. This project works in urban communities in Mexico City to supply artistic workshops to teenagers. They apply theater techniques to help people realize that they could be living with violence in their daily lives, and how to express themselves if it\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n They will take their program to Puebla, one of the states in Mexico where the figures of murders have risen during the last years, in order to collaborate with local organizations. In order to prevent violence, Interal Artistic Project in Favor of the Gender Equality project will educate and prepare young people for living in a country with less violence against women.<\/p>\n Strengthening Positive Youth Development of Juvenile Inmates<\/a> seeks to promote positive growth and address employment barriers faced by juvenile offenders and recidivism among juveniles in Bamenda Central Prison in Cameroon. Nyuyki Keafoon Joan Mary is a social worker and her greatest passion has always been to work with vulnerable and underprivileged youth. This project involves training and supporting 30 juvenile inmates in weaving and beading for income generation as an alternative income generating activity.<\/p>\n This project also includes educational programs with the inmates. The grant will help facilitate the training program and purchase and donate training equipment to these juveniles and also help create a platform for creating job opportunities after release from detention.<\/p>\n Most of the youth in the community of Nakuru, Kenya lack an opportunity to pursue a good education and struggle to make ends meet. Coming from a community whose main background is farming, Gerald Komen decided to empower youth by starting an organic strawberry farm, to improve their everyday life. The funds from the TPP grant<\/a> will allow this community to acquire more seedlings, expand the farm, and continue to provide youth training.<\/p>\nSusana, Cl\u00e1udia, Vera, And Yasmine \u2013 Restoring The Practice Of Kaing\u00e1ng Ceramics<\/h2>\n
Jectone Ooko And Francis Odhiambo \u2013 Building Staff Capacity In Schools<\/h3>\n
La Madriguera Creaciones Esc\u00e9nicas \u2013 Integral Artistic Project In Favor Of The Gender Equality<\/h2>\n
Nyuyki Keafoon Joan Mary \u2013 Strengthening Positive Youth Development Of Juvenile Inmates<\/h2>\n
Gerald Komen \u2013 Organic Strawberry Farming<\/h2>\n
Blessing Mary Ocheido \u2013 Improving Mobility & Accessibility For Nigerian Students<\/h2>\n