The Za’atari Project – empowering refugees through extraordinary public murals and educational art

I believe this is a wonderfull project!! Using places and spaces around the camp to inspire children to express the ideas.

In partnership with aptART, ACTED, UNICEF, ECHO and Mercy Corps, artist Joel Artista has traveled to Za’atari refugee camp for the past three years to work with a team of Syrian refugees. The project features workshops with young children currently living in that camp that focus not only on art but educational topics. Refugee children are given the opportunity to learn about topics such as hygiene and sanitation issues in the camp and a variety of artistic techniques.

The young refugees participate in the creation of murals across the camp, paint wheelbarrows and tents and create kites. The Za’atari project’s website explains that the project also explores “conflict resolution; their hopes and dreams for the future of their country and themselves; their nostalgia for everything and everyone that they’ve lost in the war; and the importance of building.”

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