With 26 years of experience as a teacher of painting in California, nobody can describe the relationship of colors and children than Nance Miller. Among the lucky few, who get to pursue their love as a career, in her case, it is children and painting.

A globetrotter this American teacher was recently on her second trip to Ruchika Social Service Organization. In the four days of her trip, she interacted with children of the platform school and of the shelter home. Nance first met RSSO, when her school Tom Valley was raising funds for the platform school.

“Painting is the best way to unite the world”, says Nance, “because it is much above spoken words to be effected by barriers of language”.

The children of the platform school or the children of the shelter were asked to draw, and in exchange of their drawing, they were gifted with toffees and a drawing from a child across the Pacific. That is Nance’s way of uniting the world, exchanging paintings among children who are strangers to each other, yet they manage to put up a smile on each other’s face. Moreover, children express their emotions more through drawings than words.

On asking her about the four days experience with the children at the platform and shelter home, she said, “the children I deal with back home are from affluent families, but here the kids are in circumstances in which everything is going against them, still they smile from the very core of their heart, very brave kids”. If given a chance she would definitely come back to spend some more time with these brave children.

This is what RSSO has to say to Nance...

“Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.”