Yoga Session Gift (Digital Download)
The gift of yoga pays for one yoga session for street children in the Interim Care Centre. The yoga sessions help support recovery from trauma, addiction, depression and to enhance self-regulation, self awareness and promote overall well-being. This is the perfect present for any yoga lovers.
The gift of yoga pays for one yoga session for street children in the Interim Care Centre. The yoga sessions help support recovery from trauma, addiction, depression and to enhance self-regulation, self awareness and promote overall well-being. This is the perfect present for any yoga lovers.
The gift of yoga pays for one yoga session for street children in the Interim Care Centre. The yoga sessions help support recovery from trauma, addiction, depression and to enhance self-regulation, self awareness and promote overall well-being. This is the perfect present for any yoga lovers.
How your gift has helped Laughter Africa children in the past:
The children learn yoga in the Interim Care Centre and at our mobile projects. We have some amazing yoga teachers including Sulcut, Barbadee, Frances and Bintu. One of the young people who really loved learning yoga was Theresa McCarthy who attended our mobile project in Bomeh. Sadly on the 3rd June 2024, Theresa tragically lost her life. She was found lying dead at the side of the road in Upgun, from a suspected sexual assault. Her body was removed and buried straight away. This means that no postmortem or police investigation took place so no one can know for sure what happened to her.
To honour Theresa, we carried out a memorial service at mobile so that her friends could have a chance to say goodbye. They all wrote messages to Theresa. Through their tears, her friends shared their memories of Theresa as well as said Christian and Muslim prayers. We finished by singing Theresa a song. What makes it even more tragic was that she was about to be reunified with her family again after 10 years on the streets. She was really looking forward to starting vocational school and having a fresh start.
Meanwhile, another big yoga fan was Mohamed Lamin from our mobile project in Grafton. Tragically Mohamed Lamin died on 5th May 2024. He was 20 and he left behind a 7 month old daughter called Adamma. He was studying tailoring at vocational school in Grafton. He was out with friends when he suddenly collapsed and began foaming at the mouth. He was poisoned. The police arrested the suspects. We visited his family to offer our condolences and to pay a contribution towards his burial. We also paid vocational school fees for the mother of his child so that she would be able to provide for herself and Adamma in the future.
To see some of the young people taking part in different yoga sessions, please watch the videos below: