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Author: Latika

Art Is Alive at the CVT

Woman in printed kurta laughs with three other women inside the Latika centre's paper and jewellery workshop.

When CVT invited us for an art exhibition last week, we dropped everything to get over there to see it. The CVT team has long been famous for its creative approach to life: from making mouthwatering food (cookies, chaat, pakoras – you name it) to stitching cushion covers, aprons and custom design anything; from candles […]

Shaurya Shows Up (and makes a movie!)

Young child with Down syndrome holds a yellow ball between two smiling adults on a sunlit playground.

Young kids are the ones to watch nowadays. When Shaurya, age 14, or possibly 16, offered to do a film for us, we leaped. He arrived with an I-phone and a tripod and suddenly it was “lights, camera, action.” I asked a bunch of our faithfuls to come in on a Saturday and (how lucky […]

Storytelling at Latika Vihar!

Four men sitting on small chairs in a brightly lit classroom with Hindi labels and children's artwork on the walls.

Stories have always been a big part of the daily round at Latika Vihar. We tell them in assembly, we read them out loud in the library and we encourage the children to share their own. But John Marsh took it to another level in his storytelling workshop this week. He began by telling us […]