Enrichment Activities

Integrated into our regular after school programme at Desert Voicebox, are enrichment activities offered during the year to promote creative expression in diverse media, strengthen cultural roots through music, foster inter cultural friendship and develop literacy skills.

  • Saharawi Music Lessons

    Led by local artists, these sessions explore traditional dance, and the historically male-only instrument, the tidinit.

    A group of saharawi children and an adult sitting on the floor, playing with colorful educational toys in a room with green carpet and white and pink walls, with small windows letting in natural light.

  • Creative Workshops

    Visiting artists lead short-term workshops in creative, visual and performance to expand horizons and encourage expression.

    A woman is holding a young saharawi girl on a circular aerial hoop, with the girl smiling and holding onto the hoop. Another child sits on the ground in the background, looking on.

  • Penpal Projects

    Creative exchanges with English-speaking children across the UK via WhatsApp, handmade scrapbooks and letters.

    A saharawi girl creating a colorful landscape collage with cotton balls, paper, and other craft materials, sitting at a table with other girls working on crafts in a room with orange walls.

  • Saturday Book & Conversation Club

    Weekly storytelling with native English speakers and guest readers to improve literacy and inspire imagination with the students.

    A woman reading a children's book to a group of saharawi refugee children sitting on a green carpeted floor in a room with bookshelves and wall decorations.