Our Project is called Pampatoys and it is a productive venture lead
by the Perito Moreno Waldorf school in Buenos Aires.
We are a group of women who make dolls and toys, sharing fraternal economic principles. Our members are mothers, grandmothers and friends of the school, but mainly people from other social classes who are in great need.
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Our objectives are:
- to generate an opportunity for all the craftswomen to sell their
dolls
- to help in the maintenance and growth of the Perito Moreno Waldorf
School.
To this end, we donate all our profits entirely to the school's
parents association.
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Our observation of the many toys that the modern world offers today shows that they distance the child from its affections. At Pampatoys, the process whereby each toy is created takes the needs of the contemporary child into account, and we work to evoke a loving response in the child, striving for the highest quality in all areas, and for the child’s welcoming, wondrous embrace. That first embrace is important to us and explains why we seek to create dolls that can also "hug" the child and that invite the child to hug it back and to keep on hugging it. For this reason, we select only noble and soft materials, we consciously array color and form aesthetically, and we take care to impart a specific expression to the doll, so necessary for today’s children.
During a typical day In our Training Center , which is under the guidance of our school’s arts and crafts teachers, one would find an warm atmosphere of friendship and respect, where the craftswomen themselves learn how to make these dolls and toys. Thanks to weekly meetings and regular artistic seminars, these women not only learn the technical aspects of toy-making, but also how to instill our dolls with friendliness and kindness from their inception, and how to make the form of our dolls mold to a small child’s hands and embrace. These toys are meant to allay the negative pressures derived from life in modern society, and to aid the child’s emotional development; these are pedagogically responsible toys.
