20 Japanese school children aged nine to 12 are here as part of the Miracle Kutchie Experience, a two-week art retreat programme organised by LASALLE College of the Arts and non-profit organisation Today Is The Day, for kids who had experienced the trauma and continue to live with the effects of radiation every day.
As part of the art retreat programme, the kids spend 90 minutes every day at LASALLE in a private art therapy session. Ronald Lay, art therapist and programme leader of LASALLE MA Art Therapy programme, shared, “The art therapy is tailor-made for the kids, cultural specific and age-appropriate. It is facilitated by post-graduate art therapy students and supervised by international art therapists."
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