Celeste S. Sanchez, founder of Divine Mercy Mobile Center
By: Admin
Armed with the vision "to enable persons with developmental disabilities, overcome their traumas and become creative, productive, self-reliant whole persons and a mission of providing special education, training, livelihood assistance, rehabilitaiton and development to persons with developmental disabilities, through music and arts therapy, including the physical, psychosocial, intellectual and spiritual well-being of the beneficiaries - Autist, Hearing Impaired, Mentally Retarded, Muti-handicapped, Visually Impaired, Elderly Senior Citizens, Intellectually Disabled, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsied, Socially and Psychologically Disabled.
The Center, on a continuing basis, offers the beneficiaries medical, integrative medicine, music and arts therapy, physical and behavioural therapy.
The years 1993 through 1996 honed Celeste in her music prowess and growing local recognition in the field of music therapy. She adpted a center-based and mobile approach in the delivery of its direct education, training and rehabilitation services, for she believed that physical distance should not be a detriment to learning music. She brought music wherever she went and she taught it to whoever wanted to learn.
Source: "A Recital by the Enabled VIII" 2002
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