Brightening up the new Restart centre

The Sanata Charitable Trust have raised enough money to build a bigger and better building for the Restart Centre which they hope will be ready to move into before Christmas.  We offered to help decorate it by painting some murals and were delighted when Sanata said yes.

We put together some designs, including our own Twiga mascot that the children can use as a height chart and in the dining hall we will be painting their motto “think not what you are, but what you may become”.  Sanata said yes again - happy painting!

4 days later….

This morning we finished painting. In just twelve hours we have managed to paint everything we were hoping for. 

In the girls dormitory there is a countryside scene.  

 

The boys dorm building has an underwater scene.  

Both dorms have an “Are you as tall as a giraffe?” mural

In a classroom there is an alphabet, along with numbers up to twenty. 

Finally, in the main dining hall we have an impressive mural with the Sanata logo and motto.

We spent the mornings from Tuesday to Friday painting at the new Restart, and the afternoons working with the children. On our first morning we managed to chalk out the designs onto all the walls. By the end of the second day, most of the block colours had been painted on and on the third and the final morning we added the finishing touches, and outlined anything else. 

To us it felt like 60 minute makeover (well twelve hour makeover at least), working to our tight schedule. It was so good to see everything come together as we had hoped in the short space of time we had. Hopefully the children will like it, and it will give them something to remember us by!

PS if you look very carefully you might spot a few clues as to who painted them...