Butterfly Art Project is a non profit organisation that empowers participants to become community of active facilitators, who use their skills in vulnerable communities, to bring about healing, healthy social lives and inspire others through art. The different programs reach out to hundreds of children and their carers living in the townships of the Cape. We are a group of local and international art therapists, facilitators and involved persons who wish to make a difference, whilst promoting transcultural sharing, caring and understanding. While teaching children various art skills (water colour, crayons, clay) they start to develop abilities needed to cope with a modern society later in life and presently to deal with their daily challenges. Underprivileged children, like those living in townships, are barely exposed to specific material in order to experience normal, creative, childhood development. By offering them paper, brushes, cloth, spray bottles, puppets, rhythm and movement, we enable them to achieve a suitable development maturity for their age group. It is impossible for traumatized children to learn, grow or fulfil their potential without necessary intervention, like the Butterfly Art Project, to assist them in doing so. The simple concept of a butterfly’s metamorphosis, helps lead the children to a deeper understanding of change, growth, healing, transformation and the potential for such, in themselves and in their surroundings.
