The Memory Project
Posted by Krissy PondenAlmost one million Rohingya have fled violence in Myanmar, most in just the past year. Many children are now living in refugee camps in Bangladesh where they have few possessions. The Memory Project partnered with charities working with Rohingya refugees and collected thousands of photographs of children. Artists around the world, including our eighth graders, are drawing and painting portraits of these children, which will then be given back to the children as gifts — something special and personal created just for them. In conjunction with our study of Mohamad Hafez and his Syrian refugee series, we have been learning how art can humanize and give voice to the voiceless, and how artists can both record history and help to change the future.
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