By Alexandra Hammer | Fundraising Manager
“The heart and soul of Tiny Toones is with our teachers. Without them, our Tiny students don’t have the inspiration they need to create a future for themselves.” - KK Tiny Toones founder
On behalf of our Tiny students and teachers, thank you for your kindness!
Perhaps our most important fundraiser, “supporting a Tiny Toones Teacher” permits former students who understand first hand the community, living situations and challenges of our Tiny students, and are able to mentor, inspire and encourage kids just like them, and prove that they too can create their own future!
"I want to travel the world introducing people to Hip Hop because every time I show someone what I can do, they are like WOW!"- Tiny Toones music teacher
visit http://www.tinytoones.org/videos/.
Now in full swing of offering our kids more classes than ever before, we are happy to report that more of our students are attending Public School! With the room for more students to join our center, we are now branching out in 7 new communities! With the emphasis on participation, creativity and – crucially – fun, 9-10 classes are now run simultaneously throughout the day, reducing class and allows for a more personal interaction for each of our Tiny students.
Back from Europe
A few of our very talented teachers were invited to attend the Floor Wars an International break dancing competition in Denmark. Whilst we were not the winners this year, it proved to the teachers that hard work and practice pays off. As mentors to over 200 Tiny students, this positivity and leadership is essential.
Tiny Toones also represented Cambodian creativity at the International Community Arts Festival (ICAF) in Rotterdam in the Netherlands! Both Homie and Diamond were part of the eight person team who spoke and performed at the event.Musicians, public space designers, visual artists, choreographers, theatre makers, storytellers and cinematographers from South Africa, Congo, the Philippines, Colombia, and all over North and South America and Europe attended to share their ideas and learn from each other.Tiny Toones who was invited to run a workshop and put on a dramatic performance, was honoured to be invited to such a prestigious event with special thanks go to the Prince Claus fund - who also supported the making of Anakut earlier last year - for enabling us to get there.
Last year we produced three short films telling the stories of Tiny Toones teachers, Homie, Diamond and Voch to not only turn their own lives around but also inspire and educate the next generation at Tiny Toones. Be inspired, take a look. http://www.tinytoones.org/videos/.
Plans for the year ahead...
Continuing to offer more space for creativity and fun, to introduce more learning through play for the under 10s and to develop our own Tiny Toones curriculum. Most of all we want to continue delivering over 300 hours of classes to under privileged children every week. 2013 was a big step, now we want to help them to keep moving forward, keep learning and keep growing. With your continuing help we know we can do it.
To support a former Tiny Toones student to become a teacher you can visit the campaign page at http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/sponsor-a-tiny-toones-teacher/.
For those based in the UK you can make your donation go further at Global Giving UK at http://www.globalgiving.co.uk/projects/sponsor-a-tiny-toones-teacher/.
By Dave Hewitt | Development Director
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