What We Believe
All children need to play and be creative. It makes them happier, confident, better learners and better friends. But some of them need a little help. That’s why we have developed the Create, Play, Move and Learn online resources. CreateCATT( our main company) is committed to getting all children to play creatively and to be the best they can be by supporting the adults who help them. CreateCATT also aims to help the 15% of children in low and middle income countries in Asia with disabilities and learning difficulties to get access to relevant and affordable resources to help these children and their families.
What We Do
Create, Play, Move and Learn is an online course for parents and professionals that helps them understand how children learn. It is filmed in rural India and aims to support children, both in rural and urban settings to create, play, move and learn and reach their full potential, in particular children who learn and develop differently.
The aim of our company and our new online course is a diffusion model that uses the Internet to make global best practice available in Asia, to help all children and particularly those with learning difficulties to lead more independent lives.
CreateCATT provides creative arts and play-based training, therapy and consultancy services for healthcare and education professionals, voluntary welfare organisations, and parents
Who We Are
Caroline Essame, Founder and Director is a British occupational therapist and creative arts therapist who has worked for over 30 years in the field of creativity and human development, with experience in health and education in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, the UK. She is based in Singapore.
Caroline Molloy – is a occupational therapist with over 30 years’ experience in disability, welfare, health and management. Caroline is a personal development coach, a mentor for best practices in health and welfare services, and Chair of the Candle for India Charitable Trust which supports special needs services in India.
CreateCATT has an International team of creative, educational and clinical consultants that support their vision and projects.
CreateCATT works in partnership with Deepti Special School in Kerala, India.
Learn more:
Visit our website: http://www.createcatt.com/
Join our Facebook community: https://www.facebook.com/CreatePlayMoveandLearn
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Follow our blog as we travel to India: http://carolineinkerala.wordpress.com
$20,000 Tipping Point Goal
This money will go towards the development of more online courses and resources which will be made at Deepti Special school in rural India. It will fund us to run creative sessions with the children to inspire them, the teachers and their families to create, play, move and learn. All these courses will be filmed by a professional filmmaker so that these ideas and expertise can go online and inspire people far and wide. This project will include promotion of the courses and resources across southern India, we will be presenting in Vellore and Chennai as well as in Kerala and hope to subsidize poorer families to access to the online content.
Your support to reach our tipping point of $20000 will ensure that we can create quality film footage and promote all our resources across Southern India and beyond reaching out to the 52 million children with disabilities across India. When parents know how to help their children and their children can create, play, move and learn life becomes easier and happier. Please help us support these families and get our expertise out to areas where there is none.
$10 gives a small class of children with special needs a creative play opportunity at school,
$50 provides a teacher with specialist creative play support and training opportunity on and off line
$100 funds creative play materials for the all the children for a term
$500 provides a training workshop for all the Deepti centre staff
$1000 pays for three days filming and developing of new online resources that can impact the 52 Million children with disabilities across India.
$60,000 Stretch Goal
This money will help us to set up a Vocational Centre at the Deepti Centre for young adults making creative products that can be used alongside the online ideas and training to promote creative play and learning for all children across India. This will provide a sustainable income for these children and their families and break the cycle of poverty often associated with disability in developing countries.
Your support to reach our stretch goal of $60000 will ensure that we can set up a vocational centre to support the young adults who are coming out of Deepti special school giving them and their families an income, hope and ongoing support in their lives.
$50 pays for the vocational centre bus service for a week so that all the children can attend from the outlying villages.
$100 funds the wood and carpenter fees to create the first crate that will be made in the vocational centre, giving young adults with special needs new skills.
$500 funds materials for one create in a crate box that will be sent to special schools and children's services across India and beyond.
$1000 provides a salary for a vocational staff member for a year to allow the new creative products to be developed.
$5000 allows for all the start up materials to be purchased for the vocational centre, creating a sustainable start
$10000 pays for all the marketing, budget management and shipping of the creative products across India to launch a sustainable vocational centre.
