Expressive Arts Nepal:
The Good Work Continues Exponentially!
An update: We have raised $2,000.00 of our funds for this years goals!
I(Mary) will fly to Nepal in October to teach EXA Therapy: Healing the Wounds of Trauma
and Community Art: Community Healing in Traumatic Environments!
Dear Friends,
Expressive Arts Nepal is a project I am involved with to
support the development of healing work and community peace building through
Expressive Arts Therapy and Community Art Practice in Nepal.
Many stories of the work can be found on my blog at: http://hoperisingamidst.blogspot.com/
My role in this project as a volunteer is as a
teacher/trainer and project development facilitator. I go to Nepal bi-annually to teach Expressive
Arts Therapy to therapists, social workers, teachers and community care
providers. As a work grounded in
justice, my role is to empower Nepali people to establish an organization of
their own which is highly credible and professionally effective and ethical.
Funds raised are applied to two primary functions.
1-
Increasing educational, internship and
supervision experiences of budding professionals in Nepal from a culturally
relevant and respectful posture.
2-
To guide the development and application of Expressive
Arts Therapy and Community Art for people in need by Nepali practitioners.
Below you will find a description of how we are doing and
the progress we have made in this project as well as the goals we have for the
coming year.
Good News!
Sadhana Thapa and I are thankful to announce Expressive Arts
Nepal is now a partner with The Blue Butterfly Foundation a US based non-profit
whose mission is to power those in need focusing on the impoverished country of
Nepal and victims of child labor, trafficking, and enslavement.
We are so Grateful to Lauren Yanks of Blue Butterfly for
welcoming us!
Your tax deductible donations to Expressive Arts Nepal can
be made right on the Blue Butterfly page above!
Over the past 4 years, through the generosity of our donors:
EXA Nepal has facilitated:
·
1,124 hrs of Expressive Arts Therapy/Community
Art with children in need
·
Provided 378 hrs of Expressive Arts therapy with
Seniors
·
Provided 200 hrs of EXA therapy with the LGTBQ community
·
Provided 478 hrs of EXA Therapy with Trafficking
survivors
·
Provided Sadhana Thapa with 2 out of 3 years of
her Masters studies in Expressive Arts Therapy
·
Provided for Mary Putera(LMHC, CAGS, PhD
candidate) to travel to Nepal every year for up to 6 weeks to provide training
and ongoing supervision and support of Expressive Arts Nepal via internet
consultation.
·
Provided 3 years of EXA Therapy Level 1
Masterslevel classes for 77 Nepali professionals and students across the fields
of Psychology, Education and Social Work
·
Provided 2 years of Level ll EXA Therapy
trainings and Community Art for 27 Nepali professionals and students
·
Provided ongoing supervision for EXA and
Community Art students
·
Sadhana Thapa’s work to teach Introductory
Masters level courses in Expressive Arts and Creative Arts Therapy in 2 Nepali
universities.
·
Provided Sadhana Thapa with 2 of 3 years of
economic support to achieve her Masters in Expressive Arts Therapy.
Truly, through the generous help of donors, Expressive Arts
Nepal is growing!
Next Steps:
In the coming year, we have some very critical hurdles to
leap together.
Sadhana Thapa needs to complete her final year of Masters
work at European Graduate School: The costs include
·
Tuition, thesis advisor and editor fees, travel
expenses and graduation fees totaling $10,000.
Support for a second Nepali national to begin studies at
European Graduate School
·
Tuition and travel $8,000
Travel expenses for Mary Putera to teach in Nepal.(all work
is done as a volunteer)
·
$2,500
Provision of ongoing Expressive Arts therapy for Blue
Butterfly Foundations Trauma Informed Programs, Nepali Seniors, Trafficking
survivors and street children:
·
$3,000
Income streams:
Expressive Arts Nepal: Sadhana Thapa and Bipin Thapa will
raise $2,000 towards tuition costs
Mary Putera: Will offer international Masters level EXA
students cross-cultural academic and internship opportunities with all funds
beyond expenses directly supporting EXA Nepal’s budget. $2,000
Donations and Sponsor development: $19,000
Ways to Contribute:
Donations:
·
If your Employer(or previous employer if you are
retired)participates in Benevity (
www.benevity.com)
you can designate your employee giving and corporate match funds to Blue
Butterfly and the Expressive Arts Nepal project.
·
Watch for our Giving Tuesday event in November!
All contributions are gratefully received!
A letter for tax purposes will be sent to all donors before
January 30th.
In 2019-2020 as a partner with Blue Butterfly Foundation:
Expressive Arts Nepal will bring Expressive Arts therapeutic
support for the children and staff of Blue Butterfly Foundations newly forming
school for children. This school is designed around a trauma informed
curriculum for children whom suffer environmental and personal trauma. We are
so excited for this project.
Rev. Mary Putera LMHC, CAGS, MDiv. PhD candidate.
