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FSU student takes art therapy practice to Haiti | tallahassee.com | Tallahassee Democrat

One child drew pictures of bricks tumbling off the sides of a building, landing on the heads of people below. Another, using thick paint and construction paper, created images of blood and broken bones. Amanda

Sanders admits she didn’t know what to expect when she arrived at the orphanage in Haiti earlier this month.

An art therapy graduate student at Florida State University, Sanders was there to work on her final project for school – and, to hopefully help some of the 90 children cope with the destruction they have been living amidst during the past six months.

“I was trying to create a place for the kids to have fun. They were fending for themselves, growing up way too fast,” Sanders said. “I wanted them to be kids.

“The ones who had been traumatized, I wanted them to be able to express themselves through art.”

Art therapy has become an increasingly popular tool for helping traumatized children.

Read more on this in Friday's Tallahassee Democrat.