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31st December 2015 Dear Friends of Vamos al Museo, This year has been quite extraordinary in the impact Vamos al Museo and the Museo MARTE has been able to have on the lives of children across El Salvador. Through your support, we have been able to bring children to the museum that may have never visited a city or had any awareness of their rich culture. El Salvador is a country with some of the most expressive people I know, with an enduring entrepreneurial spirit that persists through mulLple hardships. Vamos al Museo aims to conLnue to bring that ethos alive for children in some of the most marginalized areas of the country. In giving a child exposure to art, you are giving them a route to be creaLve, to escape their daily lives and to hopefully inspire them towards a more creaLve, construcLve path. Thank you for your support this year. Although there is a tough road ahead for the future of the country, Vamos al Museo can act as the beacon forwards to a different alternaLve. In showing these children that someone from their country or even London or New York cares about them, you are providing them with so much more than a trip to the museum. Instead you are demonstraLng that the values of care and compassion can indeed cross many borders and oceans. Sincerely, Nicholas Opinsky Founder of Vamos al Museo
Highlights of 2015
Youth Group Quetzalcoatl At the end of 2014 in London, I had the pleasure of meeAng a group of BriAsh volunteers who spent Ame in the Nuevo Gaucho community as part of Progressio UK. I wanted to help in conAnuing their work in making a difference in the lives of this youth group. I therefore got in touch with their leader, ‘Mapache’ to arrange a visit to the museum. I think they had a wonderful Ame visiAng the museum and we hope to have them again soon!
Licry Bicard, 9th of February 240 Students from San Salvador and La Libertad For Licry Bicard's wonderful and magical solo exhibiAon at the museum, she kindly agreed to lead a tailored workshop for approximately 240 children to create a joint art piece. You can just see from the photos how enthralled the children were by Licry's grand instrucAon. This was a truly wonderful way to start 2015 for Vamos al Museo.
Gabriela Larios, 13th of August 60 students from La Paz Gaby's arAsAc and creaAve abiliAes transcend across any medium. In addiAon to being a donor to the fund, I managed to convince her to hold a workshop with a group of students from La Paz. I think they had a great Ame making these very fashionable hats. Most importantly, they were able to see just how fun it is to be creaAve with different materials.
TiA Escalante, 13th of July, 120 students from Cuscatlan and Soyapango My inspiraAon in starAng Vamos Al Museo came from when I observed a group of children from El Colegio Highlands enacAng their own version of TiA and David’s famous frogs. It became instantly clear how special this exposure to art was for these children. The fund came out of a desire to spread that impact even further. It was a great pleasure this year that TiA Escalante was able to make art further come alive by compleAng a joint piece with these children.
Fundemac: 22nd of August and 21st of September 240 students from Morazán At an Embassy event in London, I met Susana Cruz, one of the directors of Fundemac, a charity focused on the development of Morazán, one of the more remote departments of the country. We decided to collaborate together and we were able to bring 240 children from the department. Both visits received great press from El Diario Del Hoy and El Faro, it was great to see the iniAaAve recognized for its impact. Many of these children had never visited San Salvador let alone the art museum, so it was clearly beyond exciAng. It was great to even welcome a few children from across the border in Honduras!
Embassy of El Salvador, London, 13th of May On the 13th of May Vamos al Museo, in collaboraAon with the Anglo Central American Society (ACAS), hosted its first ever fundraiser by the kind invitaAon of the Ambassador of El Salvador in London. The event was extremely well agended with many students from Imperial College Business School, friends and family. We were fortunate enough to have homemade delicious pupusas, served courtesy of Adelina de Morales, joint owner of Cuzcatlan. Myself, the Ambassador of El Salvador to the UK—Werner Romero, and Georgina Butler President of ACAS, gave speeches. In total, we were able to raise over £4,000, which has been central to the impact we have made this year in 2015. Thank you to all those who agended and donated!
Finally a special thanks to some of our donors:
MarAn Gordon OBE
Jim and Amanda Opinsky
Carol Dauber and Patricia Dauber-‐OrAz
Fundacion Regalado O’Sullivan
Diana Beagy
Michael and Camilla Bowater
Henry Gage
Marina Papa-‐Sokal
Suki Yamamoto
Theresa-‐Mary Morton