Dreams for Syria
Art in All of Us launched our Dreams for Syria project early 2015. Since, over 1000 children of 31 European countries sent their message to Syrian refugees.
Our key objective is to broaden and deepen a European consciousness among public and decision makers as a way to mitigate the risks of privation of education for an entire generation of children.
The Syrian conflict has severe impact on the education sector in Syria. Serious damage was done to at least a fifth of the local schools. Many others have been militarized or taken over for shelter by the IDP’s. There is a crucial need to improve access to preschool, primary and alternative education for children and adolescents most affected by the conflict in the selected intervention areas.
Through Art in All of Us (AiA) network of European schools throughout the world, AiA Volunteers organized creativity workshops inside schools with the cooperation of the art teacher. The results are paintings and drawings that will spark communication with the children of Syria.
In the first part of 2015, over 1000 artworks from were created in schools of 31 European countries on the theme of Dreams. The next step will be to organize similar activities with Syrian refugees in Syria, Lebanon and in Belgium. The new artwork will be sent back to European schools as part of the exchange and eventually make part of a future exhibition in Brussels.
Those AiA Awareness workshops are to create an avenue for the children of the world to connect with the children of this ravaged country. Moreover, the workshops are a tool to encourage creativity, inspire new dreams, and to provide a shelter for refugees suffering from the instability that surrounded them.
Today, we are sharing the first part of this project to welcome the refugees that arrived in the camp set in the Parc Maximilien, in Brussels.
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Awareness Workshop with Syrian refugees would provide children severely affected by conflict and upheaval with a tool to develop a dream, to connect with the outside world, to find relief through expanding their imagination beyond the confines of war and conflict and to give them a voice as a way of expressing themselves. This process would be overseen and supported by the trained and experience staff of Art in All of Us.
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