<Rainbow Children’s thoughts on the ’Anthony Brown Exhibition’ Excursion, end of Art Therapy sessions, and textbook preparations for second semester>

In August, Rainbow Dream visited Seoul Arts Center to see the ‘Anthony Brown Exhibition’ and we have also conducted Art Therapy sessions.
We originally planned to take our children to the ‘Anthony Brown Exhibition’ in three separate groups (each group on a different day, over the period of three days). But since we could only receive group discounts only when there are more than 20 members in a group, we had to rearrange the schedule and took our children to the exhibition on the 3^rd and 7^th of August. Mothers, children, and volunteers all included, about 60 members have gone on this exciting excursion.

Overall, our children had an enjoyable time at the museum. Seven-year-old sungmin said that he liked watching paintings and works of art, and also commented that his favorite painting was the monkey painting. Our six-year-old sungjoon said that he really liked the painting of a car. Soobin in third grade remembered all the paintings as very unique and Jongyeon in second grade loved the green shade in one of the paintings. Lastly, Jeehae, who was the most immersed in our museum experience, said that the more she watched the paintings, they became the more interesting and also that it was fun to watch all those paintings. A mother remarked that it was so nice to be able to come see an art exhibition, especially since it is not a commonplace activity for them, and that the children loved it as well.

We would like to give special thanks to Happy Move management members, Kim Jinyeong, Choe Jeeyoung, Nam chanwoo, and also to teachers Lee Hyeonjoo and Lee Meelim who were of great help in this small trip, and finally to volunteer Jung Meehyeon who kindly offered to take Saemin’s family separately to the museum and act as their guide.

This month, Happy Move mentoring party was held on the 20^th with the ‘slipper-making’ activity. On that very same day, we completed our 5week program of Art Therapy sessions for mothers and children. In our Mothers’ Class, mothers mostly from Vietnam participated and they agreed to take more sessions and meet again with our therapy teacher next winter. Opportunely, we have received cosmetic donations and so we were able to give small gifts to the mothers and teachers.

Now that schools have entered into their second semester, we made large purchases for elementary school second semester textbooks and distributed them during our Saturday School sessions. For those Rainbow children who never miss class and work hard, we gave them their own exercise books as presents and for children who are frequently absent, we chose to give one exercise book per two children (for two of them to share). Though buying books cost us more than hundred and fifty thousand won, because we had about four hundred thousand won left over from our ‘Anthony Brown Exhibition’ (ticket-buying) donation, we were able to buy our children’s books without much problem. We thank all of our sponsors for your generous donation.

Lastly, we have some pleasant news that our Rainbow Dream social cooperative was introduced in the official blog managed by the Ministry of Strategy and Finance and Korea Social Enterprise Promotion Agency under the title, “Meeting Rainbow Dream, a Cooperative with the Harmony of Laughter and Happiness.” You can check out more details and information below.