Hey everyone!
This May I have an amazing opportunity to go Kenya and Tanzania with an organization called Global Alliance for Africa as an art therapy intern! I am really, really, REALY excited. I LOVE traveling and learning as much as I can about other places, and so far in life I haven't left the Western hemisphere.Along with one of my classmates and a team of others, including more art therapists, we will be working with GAA, an organization that works with children orphaned by the AIDS pandemic.
Finding this organization has been pretty amazing for a few reasons. It's really exciting to get to work with some very cool people in the art therapy world who I have so much respect for and who have written art therapy text books that are currently on my shelf, waiting to be used for class. Another reason I specifically chose to travel and volunteer with this organization is traveling and volunteering abroad carries an enormous amount social responsibility. I am well aware that I am as an educated, white American I am endowed with a lot of social privilege. I want to work with an organization that acknowledges and responds to privilege and structural violence in socially responsible ways. I feel like GAA does that, and not many trips like this do.
Stay tuned for more info on the trip and how you can help me fundraise!
Cheers!
Veronica
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