Promethean Spark International New York

Discipline, focus, concentration, respect, goal-setting, perseverance...these are the tools needed to succeed in school, a job or any endeavor in life. This is what we teach---through dance. Joining hands with Rising Star Outreach of India, Promethean Spark International has succeeded in establishing much needed outreach programs in the Tamil Nadu District of Southern India. Working with hundreds of individuals from various leprosy colonies and the leprosy-affected students at the Rising Star School in Thottanaval (a small village 2 hrs south of Chennai) we have been able to institute year-round programs teaching life skills through the arts. Besides working with the young people, we are thrilled to be able to reach out to their parents and grandparents and other denizens of the leprosy colonies developing a movement therapy program in conjunction with Rising Star's mobile medical unit. You should see the joy and light in their faces as they discover themselves in ways they never drea