ESFoundation

ELISA SEDNAOUI FOUNDATION

You probably know - or heard about - Elisa Sednaoui as a fashion model and/or actress.

Well, two years ago, this talented and inspired woman founded Elisa Sednaoui Foundation (ESF) a NPO to promote creative learning and cultural exchange with children. 

Thanks to her son, Elisa got a better understanding of the issues children can have. She realized how it's important for them to follow their dreams and that's why she wants them to be able to freely express themselves, telling what they think, what they wish, how they feel about the things they experience... in a creative and open way.

ESF is about creating projects (centers, workshops...) that enrich personal and educational development of worldwide children. These projects are based on innovation and creativity but also on sharing and exchanging culture and traditions.

Every child should have access to culture and should be able to express creatively to develop his personal skills and state of being.

- Copyright M&R AroundTheWorld - 

In 2013, 30,9 million girls and 28,4 million boys did not attend school. 

For the luckiest children of developing countries who are able to attend school, they do not have time to interact, play and share moments with others after school because of heavy tasks and responsibilities waiting for them at home.

They just don't have time to think about what would make them happy, what would make them get away even for a few minutes. And it's unfair because they're just children. Playing and sharing actually is the only thing they should think of, to grow up and blossom.

ESF makes it possible for those children. It gives them back imagination, hope and opportunities to develop and grow educationally and personally.

Creative learning, in any of its kinds, is really positive for children and young people. It fosters open-mind, acceptance (and self-acceptance) and it allows kids to express themselves and understand others. It provides them a sense of community and sharing that are essential to make them good citizens of the world.

The first project took place in Egypt (in Luxor), where Elisa Sednaoui grew up.

The aim of this pilot project is "to build an environmentally sustainable community cultural centre in the heart of Luxor’s West Bank, where her father built her family home over thirty years ago. The initial focus of the project will be to provide after-school activities for children and young people in the community."

The next one is taking place in Italy...

To know more about this wonderful Foundation and its projects and make a donation, find them here and follow them there.