Ester Rodríguez’ workshop (oriental dance teacher) took place at Yashodhara Shelter Home and consisted of
-holistic exercises with movement, music, situations, images, emotions, communication and creativity;- the search for the children’s own body identity and their own way of dancing;
- various interpretation and communication games;
learning choreographies from their own country, and rehearsing, in small groups, other dance routines thought up by the children themselves.
Layla D’Angelo, an artist who enjoys sharing art with children, offered the children from Yashodhara and the Day Care Centers arts and crafts as tools to generate self-confidence and to develop inventiveness, spontaneity and an intimate language with 
colors and shapes. She also combined the exploration of manual arts with the teaching of the English language, the knowledge of which widens the possibilities of India’s disadvantaged children.Through drawing, painting, clay-modeling and mobile-making, Layla let the children search, in a natural way, for individuality and that which is special in them, leaving personal judgments aside.
Both workshops were a great success among girls and boys, who had lots of fun with these ways of self-expression. We thank our Volunteers for their dedicated participation.
