Karl, the head of the SODAS foundation for which we had been painting murals in August, September and October invited Ms. Mackay our supervisor and Anais and myself, the two heads of Artsco, to the opening of the foundation and it was really nice to see something that our club had worked towards building up finally come into existence! It was a big ceremony with lots of musicians, and speakers who talked about the importance of drug and alcohol prevention, sex education and rehabilitation for the youth of Kibera. Everyone seemed really please with Artsco's involvement in the community and we got several compliments on how our murals were able to raise awareness about the project in the community. Art is a great medium through which can impact society and have them better understand the problems of their community. Our first mural about positive and negative role models shows the youth what they do and don't want to do with their life and rewards of living a life free from drugs, alcohol and unprotected sex. In order to help SODAS with the launch of their project we also decided to donate 50,000 Shillings which we had raised through the PTO Picnic, Bake sales, the Talent Show and the International Day! They seemed extremely pleased and I really hope Artsco can continue to work with SODAS in the future.
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