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Award-winning poet Caroline Bird (centre) with Ellie Pollard and Maya Tysoe, both 10 |
Charity’s Indian odyssey creates poetic results
A TEAM from a Highbury-based charity has just returned from Rajastan in India where they were running poetry workshops for children recovering from eye surgery.
For two weeks, Caroline Bird, 21, who was recently shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Writer’s Prize, went to India with Second Sight charity to teach children who had their sight restored by cataract surgery. She was accompanied by Islington teacher and video-maker Frank Morgan and volunteer Charlotte Thompson.
At an event on Wednesday evening Ellie Pollard and Maya Tysoe, both 10, of Drayton Park primary school, read out two of the poems by Indian children Suki, 15, and Pooja, 17.
Ms Bird said: “Pooja wrote in Hindi, and I had it translated. Suki told me about her dreams and wishes, and I wrote them down for her in a lyrical form.”
Pictures taken by the Indian children with digital cameras donated to them were also shown.
Dr Lucy Mathen, 55, who started the charity in 2000 and is an eye doctor herself, said: “In eight years we have cured about 20,000 people. Our eye doctors are all volunteers and go to the poorest and most volatile areas in India.”
• The display can be seen today (Friday) from 6.30pm till 8pm and tomorrow 11-12am. at Bennetts Associates, 1 Rawstorne Place, Islington. |
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