Thank You 8th Graders for Sharing Your Love and Support
Posted by Krissy Ponden
The Memory Project is a charitable nonprofit organization that invites art teachers, art students, and solo artists to help cultivate global kindness by creating portraits for children around the world who have faced substantial challenges, such as violence, war, extreme poverty, neglect, and loss of parents. Participants create these portraits to help children feel valued and important, to know that many people care about their well-being, and to provide a special childhood memory in the future. Since 2004, more than 130,000 portraits have been created for children in 47 countries.
This year, Unquowa 8th graders painted portraits of Rohingya children. The Rohingya ethnic minority has been called the “most unwanted” group of people on Earth. Nearly a million fled genocide in Myanmar last year and are currently sheltering in a huge refugee settlement in Bangladesh. Most of these families have little more than a few cooking pans and a handful of clothes. For these children, who have rarely seen photos of themselves, the portraits are gifts they could never have previously imagined. Our students, along with almost 4,000 other artists worldwide, are helping to show these children they are not “unwanted” in our shared humanity. The video you are about to watch shows the joyful reactions of the children as they received their portraits.
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