Center for Arts in Healthcare Partners with Rwanda Red Cross
2011
Center for Arts in Healthcare worked in Rwanda with an interdisciplinary team that traveled to western Rwanda in May/June, 2011. The team partnered with Rwanda Red Cross and Barefoot Artists to create a pottery workshop and exhibit hall, and develop a professional dance troupe for a community of Twa people. Health assessments and projects that use arts for health education and access to healthcare continued throughout, and Home-based Life Saving Skills trainings were extended to Goma in Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Center also hosted, with Society for the Arts in Healthcare, East-Central Africa Arts & Health Forum in Kigali. The forum attended by arts and health professionals and government officials from six East-central Africa countries resulted in establishment of an international network for Arts & Health in the region.