OUR HISTORY

Constellation started when Sylvaine Rémy, an artist painter, met with underprivileged in the Philippines in 1995. Convinced that artistic creation is a great tool to personal and collective development, Sylvaine Rémy started to organise painting sessions in the shanty town of Tondo, near Manilla, and also sessions for kids released from Manilla's children prison.
The children's great enthusiasm, as well as the quality of their artwork, although most of them were holding a paintbrush for their first time, convinced her to carry on in this project. Constellation was born! Constellation, as a non-governmental organisation, was then created in November 1996. It first started in Burkina Faso with an artist painter called Tesseire Kinda, and then  soon was starting in Venezuela under thanks to the energy, enthusiasm and efforts of Maritza Montero, a psychologist of the University of Caracas.
Since then, many groups have been created thanks to the help of local painters and volunteers. Sometimes, the Constellation groups have been formed in association with local organisations working towards children development.