Kindiri
Our partnership in Kindiri, a rural village in southern Chad, began in 2013, when we helped build a schoolhouse. We returned in 2024 with a 2 week visual art workshop for 200 children. In March 2025 another 2 week workshop took place with another 200 children. We are helping build an art studio with furnishings and supplies to open in June 2025.
Kindiri is a small settlement located in the South of Chad. Like thousands of other villages in Africa, Kindiri is completely neglected by the Chadian government. The history, the custom and the psychology of my fellow villagers had been passed on through ancient and mystical ceremonies from the beginning of its existence to this present time. Despite the advanced level of technology of the 21st century, Kindiri’s population of about five hundred souls still lives under the fear of the “Invisible world” of the dead, the sorcerers and the diviners.
– Clamra Celestin
