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Good Gifted Garden

Good Gifted Garden
Location: Beijing, China
Category: Education
Published: 24 August 2007
Progress:
43% funded
   
Rating:
25 Ratings
There are more than 60 million disabled people in China, more than 100,000 of them are autistic, according to statistics. The actual number, however, is much higher than that. Beijing alone has about 80,000 autistic children. The problem is that there is a lack of available professional treatment.

Regarding respect and life quality, mentally disabled people and their families face very special problems. In order to help them we let them develop their potential talent though art. Everybody has the right to develop one's potential talents. We can get a really high quality of life only when we follow our talent. For the mentally disabled people, it's not enough that we just make them to learn the normal skills and live a normal life. We are there for mentally disabled people and their families in Beijing. The creative art therapy is an integrative way which also makes us try our vest to make progress.

The therapies I use include:

*Creative art therapy
*Chinese medicine therapy
*Martial therapy
*Games training
*Social communication training
*Family therapy
*Mixing art training
*Occupational training


I offer private lessons and group lessons for all these therapies.

With these eight therapies, I cannot only help them with their problems to a large extent, but also improve their abilities which can make them better socially accepted. They can participate more fully in society, contribute to it while realising their own personal wroth.

The vision for the future is to set up the first art therapy centre for disabled people in China, where we will also train other people to become art therapists themselves. Because I have so much work, I work from Monday to Sunday with learning and mentally disabled people. Most of them have no money and cannot pay anything for the therapy lesson but they need my help.
  • set of arts and crafts materials

    500 Euro. • Still needed: 475 Euro • Published 24 August 2007
    Paper, pens, brushes, plasticine, clay (+ oven to burn clay), scissors and other craft materials
  • p.e. equipment

    500 Euro. • Still needed: 490 Euro • Published 24 August 2007
    Gymnastic mats, climbing ropes, excercice mats etc.
  • fabrics, cushions, matresses to furnish the room

    Still needed: 1 • Published 08 April 2008
    We need to furnish the therapy room to get a cosy athmosphare. It´s nessessary to get the confidence of the autistic children
  • second hand craft material in donations

    Still needed: 1 • Published 08 April 2008
    Creativity is very important. I do a lot of art work with the children, so I need paper and brushes and other art mateial as much as possible.
  • advertising material

    300 Euro. • Still needed: 300 Euro • Published 11 August 2008
    We need to publish fleyers and Posters to inform people about GGG. We are planning a Information and Show day to get Attention from the population of Beijing and the Expatriets in Beijing
  • Support to create a flyer for GGG

    Still needed: 1 • Published 11 August 2008
    We need to create flyers for GGG. If anybody has good ideas how to do please contact us. We can communicate via e-mail, so the person must not live in Beijing.

Completed (4):

  • rent for room

    300 Euro. • Published 24 August 2007
    At the moment the room I use for work is very small. I am moving temporarily into another space which costs Euro 300. Eventually we will need a larger place for therapy, relaxation and office.
  • treatment per week

    65 Euro. • Published 06 December 2007
    Each child follows an individually designed art and dance therapy programme, cooperation with Chinese medical doctor Costs for medical treatments, regular medical check up and cooperation with specialists nutrition Coaching
  • rent of the therapy room per month

    200 Euro. • Published 08 December 2007
    After some discussions with the landlord I am allowed to stay in my old room, therefore I need financial support.
  • URGENT !!! Rent for a therapy room

    360 Euro. • Published 07 April 2008
    "Good Gifted Garden" needs support to survival !!!! The landlord gave us a quick notice to quit the apartment. Now we have the chance to rent a apartment (150 qm) It`s a chance to help more autistic children to develop their skills.