Samantha Yu embodies the power and beauty of dance. She sees beyond social boundaries and creates opportunities to inspire others. This past summer she spent her time teaching in a rural village south of Chennai as a volunteer for Promethean Spark. Promethean Spark, in conjunction with Rising Star Outreach, helps individuals who have, and are affected by, leprosy by providing opportunities for education and offering medical treatment.
As a temporary faculty member of the Perry School for Rising Stars, she lead leprosy affected children through a series of dance warm-ups and exercises in order to teach them important life lessons. She gives an example, A lesson in spotting quickly turns into a lesson in keeping your eye on your goal. Stretching every day translates into working on big projects a little bit at a time.
In addition to teaching these important lessons she entered two leprosy colonies in order to introduce movement therapy programs to those who have been shunned and neglected for most of their lives.
More to come...
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