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Artwork by students in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
Artwork by students in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
Artwork by students in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
Artwork by students in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
Artwork by students in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
A mother comes into her house to find her son dead in the bed, riddled with bullets. The other child is crying. “Razan” is the artist’s name (at the top). Bleeding objects are very common in the children’s drawings.Topic for this session: Dealing with loss.
The girl who drew this witnessed the scene. There is a burning hospital in the upper-right. A mother is crying for her son in the lower left. The child in the bottom center was eating a candy bar when a bomb blew his head off. He remained standing for a few moments with the candy bar in his hand.Topic for this session: Dealing with loss.
The boy's father was shot, and the red spots rare his blood against the wall and window of the house. Drawing by a 10 year old Syrian boy. Topic for session: draw your impression of life before, during and after the war.
Drawn by a Syrian refugee girl in a tea garden in Reyhanli. A family in the snow.Topic for session: Draw the future you hope for.
Topic for this session: Scary bad things in two colors. Khalid recalls: she is a very sensitive girl who thinks before she speaks. When she speaks, you like to listen to her. She is sweet, calm, and polite. You feel she has something inside, but you don’t see it... you feel like you need more time to discover it.The girl said, the black stands for fear, the red stands for blood.