🏢 About the local organisation
The objective of this project is to develop workshops of art therapy where through music and visual art seeks to express various stages of the patients' awareness, through various plastic techniques that benefit reflection, expression and relaxation with workshops will led by professional plastic artists.
This project is supported methodologically by the Mexican Association for the Help of Children with Cancer, which is dedicated to the comprehensive care of children and adolescents of low resources suffering from Cancer.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will help and support art workshops, help in the elaboration of plastic works arts and support in the sensitization to the population through expressions of art produced by children and teenagers with Cancer.
📍 About the location
The camp will be organized at Morelia city, a very beautiful place and the state capital of Michoacan. It’s a dynamic and beautiful city and an increasingly popular tourist destination, and rightly so: the colonial heart of the city is so well preserved that it was declared a Unesco World Heritage site in 1991, and its cathedral is not just gorgeous, it’s inspirational.
Morelia, founded in 1541, was one of the first Spanish cities in Nueva España. The first viceroy, Antonio de Mendoza, named it Valladolid after the Spanish city and he encouraged Spanish nobility to move here with their families. In 1828, after Nueva España had become the Republic of Mexico, the city was renamed Morelia in honor of local hero José María Morelos y Pavón, a key figure in Mexico’s independence.
Read more: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mexico/western-central-highlands/morelia/introduction#ixzz4WVZJrpPP
Read more: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/585/gallery/
You can walk in downtown which has many cultural activities and discover the variety of historical buildings and monuments, for those looking to surround themselves by natural wonders can visit the Island of Janitzio or the ancient pyramids of Tzintzuntzan, the magical towns of Patzcuaro, Santa Clara del Cobre, and several ceremonial centers of the Mesoamerican pre-Hispanic culture.