Solutions for Life Initiative- Ghana, has established a learning center for the children of Cherubs Children’s home at Apire, Kumasi. It began as a small painting project but turned into a long term creative arts center for the community and learning center for the orphanage, accompanied by a delicious lunch and free medical check-up for all 45 children of Cherubs. The original idea was simply to improve one of the unused rooms of the orphanage, transform it into more than a just one of the storing rooms; into something the children could make their own. We wanted to create a colourful space for the children to do their homework in a good environment; a place that allows them to concentrate, a place where they can read, open their minds and be creative. This meant painting the room and adding a few tables and chairs, bookshelves and hopefully several books if we could get our hands on some. We choose the colour blue to incite tranquillity and also it is said to offer inspiration and enhance communication. Four tables and 24 chairs were custom-made by a local carpenter to fit that room. We also renovated an old chest of drawers and a bookshelf. After clearing the room of its spiders’ webs and putting the furniture in place, the room was worthy of a school classroom. The children were ecstatic and very impatient to use it. “To see all the children getting so excited about receiving a learning center, a place where they can work in peace and actually reach their intellectual potential was the highlight of my stay in Ghana” said Emma Perinetti, the French volunteer that initiated this particular painting project. Many other volunteers joined the event and supported us in putting smiles on those children’s faces. In total, it took 15 litres of paint, 6 rollers, 3 brushes and 13 benevolent people who managed to paint the 7x6x1.9 metre room in less than 4 hours! Quite an incredible achievement! The room was baptised the “Perinetti Learning Center” after Emma Perinetti the volunteer who funded the project. This was only one of the day’s activities. SFLIG organised to have a medical screening for all the kids and climaxed the day with a Love Feast where all volunteers and kids were treated to a delicious meal by all sitting on a round table to eat, which was supported by Dr Annie Opoku the medical superintendent of the Kumasi Children’s hospital. According to Ms. Sally Appiagyei-Frimpong, the founder of SFLIG , “ She describe the day as indeed a republic day since the children at the centre have also been giving the opportunity to have a learning centre just like any ordinary Ghanaian. For the time being, that room will serve as a library and learning center for the orphan children. In the near future, its purpose will reach another level; the concept to create a Creative Art Centre for the community. It will be geared toward using art to contribute to the development of the potential of children. Funds that are raised would be used to procure creative art materials. According to Ms. Sally Appiagyei-Frimpong the founder of SFLIG “the objectives of the Creative Art Centre is to enable the children in the community to develop variety of human intelligence through art, develop aesthetic awareness and perception, develop creative thought and action, explore values and more as a way of achieving our mission of making every life count and making the young the corner stone in nation building.