Essay About Jacaranda Workshop

1.0 Introduction

Everyone has that one place or environment they call their familiar. That place where someone would call home. A place where you have been brought up and all the people around you are of the same social class. This is a good place to be because it give one a sense of belonging. However this may also be dangerous because it often restricts people’s view to life, as many people, especially those brought up from well off backgrounds often have no clue about what goes on outside their social class bubble. Community service often enables people to see life from another pair of lenses, see and experience what the unfortunate in the society really go through, and most importantly it allows people to find ways to improve the lives

The institution was founded in 1982 and was intended to create a livelihood and a stream of income for the mentally disabled individuals who graduate from the jacaranda special school though some of the people who work at the workshop dint come from the school. The main work done at the workshop is the use of clay to make beads to create various kinds of jewellery The institution trains these people on how to make jewelry and artifacts from scratch; from preparing the clay, to molding it and glazing them into breathtaking pieces of art. By looking at them you wouldn’t know that such pieces have been created by a mentally handicapped person. The jewelry is then sold and the proceeds go to the maintenance of the institution and the artisans.

Some of the objectives of the Jacaranda Workshop include;

• Accept suitable handicapped children from the Jacaranda special school for the handicapped and to train them to fabricate costume jewellery and the like or any other trade or vocation and to provide them with employment in such trade or vocation (Workshop, 2016).

• Engage in such trade or business as would provide suitable paid employment to ex-students of the Jacaranda Special school for the handicapped as the directors may deem fit (Workshop,