There are countless non-profit art organizations in the world. While most of them utilize the power art holds for positive and productive social purposes, VAST Bhutan stands apart from the rest.\u00a0 I have had the privilege of witnessing the workings of VAST, first hand, over the last six weeks. It is always an incredible thing to participate in social services, but VAST\u2019s volunteers have reminded me how true activism through art can benefit a world.
\nVAST has initiated several special projects alongside the regular classes that are taught by its volunteers- projects that are born out of the core of true humanitarianism.\u00a0 Last year, volunteers came together to develop a rice bank to help the needy. They also built a home for a family in Punakha.\u00a0 While both of these projects were incredible, VAST\u2019s \u2018Make a Wish\u2019 project deserves particular recognition.<\/p>\n
For futher information on VAST bhuan please visit: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.vast-bhutan.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n (Courtesy: BusinessBhutan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are countless non-profit art organizations in the world. While most of them utilize the power art holds for positive and productive social purposes, VAST Bhutan stands apart from the rest.\u00a0 I have had the privilege of witnessing the workings of VAST, first hand, over the last six weeks. It is always an incredible thing … Continue reading NGO Spotlight: VAST Bhutan (Voluntary Artists\u2019 Studio Thimphu)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,19],"tags":[219,254,1204],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ngo","category-sustainable-development","category-youth-sustainable-development","tag-bhutan-travel","tag-bridge-to-bhutan","tag-responsible-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}