Fell Dyke Primary School was given a Cultural Ambassadors' grant for their silk painting project, which linked to a school in Uganda. Here Cultural Ambassador Irene Johnson describes the project:

Our school sponsors a teacher at the Hands of Love Orphanage and School in Uganda. The school has over 300 orphaned children who are cared for and taught by dedicated staff who receive no salary unless they are sponsored.

For our Ambassadors Grant project we worked with an artist named Brigid Scott and Family Learning. Brigid worked for six sessions with children, parents and two grandparents to make silk painted banners. One of the banners is displayed in school the other was sent to the orphanage school in Uganda.

The parents and children worked on the designs incorporating the logos of the two schools and 'hands of love' across the middle of the banner.

We had previously received pictures drawn by the children in Uganda and incorporated them into the design. The children made their own pictures of things that are special to them to be included in the banner. The children ranged in age from the Reception Class to Year 6 and everyone, parents and children, were involved in the design and painting of the banner.

The children also wrote letters to the children in Uganda explaining how they had made the banners.  We look forward to hearing that it arrived safely but this may take some time as communication is often difficult.

Watch this space for news of how the other grants were spent!...

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