This time I would like to share some impressions of my latest and last activities during my intervention here in Honduras. My work is already coming to an end, while I feel that I have only started to really create a visible effect and impact. Well, this is the way it is many times, I guess. Things never go the way exactly planned and one has to keep up personal and professional flexibility at all times, being satisfied with what there is instead of grieving for the things that haven't been able to achieve.
I never thought I'd be a mother of a one year old child, once I finish this job - nor I imagined to be witness of such a serious political crisis that occurred in this country, reflecting - on a relatively small scale yet very clearly - some of the world's dis-balance all over... The power stays in hands of the powerful - poor people apparently are doomed to stay poor as long as they live and maybe even for several generations...
It's only a matter of perspective that keeps me motivated and optimistically appreciating the efforts and results of my work here, as well as the work of the organization I work for. Knowing that "being poor or rich" can be defined in many ways, I see Arte Acción as a perfect example: Though always struggling on the edge of surviving economically, the members and even the building where the organization is located, radiate joyful happiness, pure sharing, mad creativity and a nice balance between professionalism and informality.
What I hope to have left a little while I was here, is the invitation to all the people I attended at Arte Acción to express themselves, communicate openly and honestly, create with their hands and hearts, using artistic materials, like paint, clay or paper... liberating themselves of pressure and insecurity - gaining hope, clarity and confidence on individual level; trust, relations and communication abilities on social level.
I left some guidelines in an art therapy manual, including about 20 activities and theoretical information, so some of the young people Arte Acción works with, can carry out art therapy's techniques with other youth or children.
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