Welcome to cmap’s new website. cmap is currently successfully running in Ecuador and Mexico with over 100 children and young people actively participating in our creative arts activities on a weekly basis. We now have official charity status and we are very excited about what the future holds in terms of actual and potential beneficiaries of our project.
We are pleased to offer placements for arts practitioners to run six-month projects in our existing projects Ecuador and Mexico and with our new project partner in Peru from September 2010.
The placements are offered in partnership with Icye – Intercultural Youth Exchange UK. We welcome interest from UK based arts practitioners who have a keen interest or previous experience of working in arts and outreach education.
To apply please visit the get involved section of our website and download the application form.
This is goodbye to bumpy bus rides and chocolate coated bananas frozen on lollipop sticks. Goodbye to slurping hot soups in sweltering sun and listening to omnipresent latino rhythms. This is goodbye to JUCONI and the fantastic young people of Guayaquil .
It was never going to be easy saying goodbye to over 100 young people in one week. We will simply miss the lot of them. We feel very privileged to have worked with these young talented individuals and to be apart of the cmap project. We´ve seen first hand how the project not only helps to develop communication and creative skills but can boost self confidence and improve individual and collective behaviour. Above all the project provides the children with a safe alternative space away from work on the streets and offers them a space in which they are free to be children, a space in which they can play.
Art club wouldn´t be possible without the fantastic supoort of the JUCONI staff and all the volunteers who have helped us in the past eight months. We would like to especially mention Katie who has helped us with the energetic children of Isla Triniteria every Friday afternoon. We would also like to say a gigantic thank you to everyone who sponsored and supported us in Denmark and the UK . It´s been an incredible experience.
Andy and Lone. x