THE ESTER BENJAMINS TRUST AND MOSAIC PROJECT

The Ester Benjamin Trust http://www.ebtrust.org.uk/ is a UK charity that supports work in Nepal that provides residential care for children in Nepal that have been affected by conflict or have been trafficked.

The Trust is now helping to train trafficking survivors and deaf school leavers in mosaic art in their Integrated Art Workshop, enabling them to take up commissions that will help them into an independent adult life.

In collaboration with the Kailash hostel and the AKIS school, Mark Wood (a British volunteer artist) and 6 of his EBT deaf students spent 6 days with us working on a special Mosaic.  Both the international students , students of the Kailash Hostel and the students from EBT had a rewarding experience.  It was wonderful to see all the children communicating in sign language by the end of the 6 days.

The 6 day project concluded with the Children of the Kailash Hostel giving a cultural performance to the AKIS students.  A cheque of US$ 4000 was presented to the nepal project together with a music system.