VILLAGE RESOURCE CENTER AT EDEN PARK

Under pop-up tents, many art activities were held at the Village Resource Center.

The Neighborhood Arts Project meant I had a chance to help other children by helping them to have something to remember from the summer. Art gives me hope to create, think, and to create beautiful pictures and memories.

The Neighborhood Arts Project helped me to learn how to do more creative things. Art gives me a lot of hope to do things on paper that I thought I was not good at.

As the Camp Director, the Neighborhood Arts Project has always been a way for children to express their emotions, thoughts, and gifts freely and imaginatively. I believe art gives hope because it allows one to be creative, to express feelings and emotions, and is a way to visually say what one may not be able to vocalize.

Eva Collins Camp Director at Village Resource Center

Louisiana Area Women in Ministry has been a NAP site since June 16, 2016. Since the partnership began, NAP has helped to bring within the community a needful resource to an underprivileged, underserved community. To me and Louisiana Area Women in Ministry, the relationship has shown the power of collaboration and the ability to offer an opportunity which was otherwise outside of our reach. Thus, the partnership created a sense of community with the young and old, came together for fun, fellowship, and to experience the arts as well as to express themselves through art. Thank you, NAP.

Dr. Mary Whitley Moss Village Resource Center