Description

About - Paint to Educate Project 

Team Partaz Enn Sourire is looking for volunteer artists willing to participate in School Mural Painting campaign in the District of Savanne. The project is geared towards using Art as a form of communication to educate, sensitize and create awareness on life values & social issues for school kids as much as for all the stakeholders in the community. Art projects come and go; but murals are here to stay. They are a legacy, a means for students, staffs, and the people to communicate from generation to generation. We believe murals can be used as an artistic dialogue serving to educate, inspire and empower present and future student populations. 

The Science Behind Use of Wall School Murals 

There's a lot of science that backs using wall murals in schools. For example: 

Approximately 65% of the population are visual learnersResearch shows that we process visual information about 60,000 times faster than textDr Lynell Burmark, Ph.D. Associate at the Thornburg Centre for Professional Development visual learning and co-author of ‘Visual Literacy: Learn to See, See to Learn’, says that, “Unless our words, concepts, ideas are hooked onto an image, they will go in one ear, sail through the brain, and go out the other ear.”

In other words, visuals not only help more pupils learn faster, but they also help pupils retain information longer.

Objectives

A quick list of the objectives are: 

Positive Messaging - Inspirational phrases/ Empowering Words that can help redirect focus and attention. Place Activation - By painting a mural it can change the atmosphere of the space it is painted. Mind Programming - Seeing positive/ empowering words continuously for a certain period of time leads to a brain/subconscious programming of beliefs which we want to influence by making it a positive one. 

We are sharing some pictures from the internet which we would wish to see on the school murals. In case the team of volunteer artists have their own ideas to convey then it will be around the below chosen themes: 

Be the 'I' in KindGo Green - Only One EarthCelebrate Diversity & InclusivityAspire to GreatnessA timeline of Mauritius HistoryStrength & Happiness Lies in UnityBiodiversity - Building a shared life for all lifeYou Are Unique - Leave your Mark

Be part of this first of its kind project in Mauritius and join us to create a better world for our kids. People may say our generation isn't going to amount to anything, but we believe with a little creativity and help, we can all play an active part in the kind of society we want to be a part of!

Be The Difference, Paint to Educate

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