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Yellow House provides an equal opportunity for children from diverse backgrounds, cultures and capacities, including children with disabilities and those from children's homes, to come together to learn, to have fun and to share through art.

Yellow House currently has a free-arts program for children from homes where each selected group gets to enjoy and benefit from our 4 monthly creative sessions conducted by our trained volunteer art facilitator and led by our "Saturday Fun with Art" working committee. At the end of every year we will bring the various groups of children together in a joint themed event cum exhibition. Since Yellow House officially opened its doors in September 2001, our free-arts programs have benefited more than 800 children, most of them from children's homes.

The Malaysian Friends of UNICEF created Yellow House for children and it is also our vision that Yellow House not only becomes a "playground" for children but also one by children, a place for them not only to come together, have fun and express themselves, but also for them to lead, to reach out, to inspire and to make a difference.

At the heart of everything we do there are always children and for most (if not all) of our projects, we include children (we refer them as young people) on our committee as equal "partners", not just "beneficiaries". We adults will take a "facilitative" and "supportive" role (as opposed to a "directive" role), and act as mentors and sounding boards to the young people who have come forth to lead. Towards this initiative, we have just set up a committee with young people and children fully on board the Yellow House / Friends of UNICEF committee.