Ramana’s Garden is a children’s home that provides a safe residence, food, medical care, clothing and complete support for over fifty children. This organization also provides free education for 130 children onsite at Ramana’s Garden School by paying for teachers and school supplies as well as the children’s uniforms and a free, healthy lunch for all students who attend school here. The resident kids also run a café onsite that serves organic food grown in their very own gardens, and the proceeds from the café cover the daily costs of running the orphanage. The meals that the children eat are also almost entirely sourced from their own gardens, which all the kids help out in. They grow a great selection of vegetables like broccoli and kale that are not grown elsewhere in India but which thrive here and are so nutritious. They also have their own chickens, cows, and goats, which are well treated, well fed, and provide milk and eggs for everybody onsite! Lon_Art have decided to lunch this initiative with the objective of developing the children's creativity and imagination through arts. In spite the education provided by the Ramana's School, Lon_art wanted to bring the opportunity of getting all the children and teenagers living here, involved in an art project and offer them materials and techniques that they never have tried before, as mosaic and collages. Because of the social and economic situation, we wanted to bring the same opportunities of interaction with arts as the ones that other kids have in societies more developed.
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