{"id":15701,"date":"2017-03-13T21:55:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T04:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/?p=15701"},"modified":"2020-05-04T10:24:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T17:24:45","slug":"syrian-refugee-children-art-express-pain-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/refugees-news-stories\/syrian-refugee-children-art-express-pain-loss","title":{"rendered":"Syrian refugee children use art to express pain and loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>When Faras, 11, draws a picture of his past in Syria, he sketches an idyllic landscape with a smiling sun, a rushing river, and a green field where he and his brother once cared for sheep. Habib, 9, instead uses a black crayon to outline a helicopter dropping bombs.<\/p>\n<p>Given the opportunity to draw their past, present, and future, young <a href=\"\/refugees-news-stories\/syrian-refugee-crisis-facts\">Syrian refugee<\/a> children in a Child-Friendly Space in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon express a wide range of feelings.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s entirely appropriate, says Bassima, the center supervisor, who is also a Syrian refugee: &ldquo;We have a past that is both beautiful and ugly.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Animators, the adults who lead activities for different age groups of <a href=\"\/refugees-news-stories\/photos-syrian-refugee-children\">refugee children<\/a>, don&rsquo;t ask them about their painful experiences and losses, she says.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We provide a peaceful place for them to feel their freedom. It&rsquo;s a safe place for them to experience feelings and memories,&rdquo; Bassima says.<\/p>\n<h2>Syrian refugee children look at past, present, and future<\/h2>\n<p>Ahmad, a classroom animator for a group of 10- to 12-year-olds, stands in a circle of 12 boys and girls who mimic his motions as he pantomimes raising an umbrella. The Child-Friendly Space provides an &ldquo;umbrella of comfort and safety over your head,&rdquo; he tells them.<\/p>\n<p>Then the children and their animators draw, talk, and share pencils, crayons, and ideas &mdash; their observations of past, present, and future.<\/p>\n<p>For the present, says Huda, another animator, &ldquo;Every day there is something sad [the children hear] about relatives in Syria. They need support not to be overwhelmed by sadness.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>And the future?<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The future is very important to us, the future for these children,&rdquo; says Huda. &ldquo;If we create this peaceful place for children, we&rsquo;ve done what we can do.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\">Read more below about what the Syrian refugee children created in their artwork.<\/h2>\n<p>[vc_single_image image=&rdquo;15646&Prime; img_size=&rdquo;medium&rdquo;]Mahar&rsquo;s drawing is all about Syria. He drew his family home there and his brother standing beside it with arms open wide. &ldquo;Mister, I had everything!&rdquo; he told the translator. In the center panel, Mahar plays with his friend Shadi in Syria. In the future, he wants to return there as an expert in karate. (&copy;2016 World Vision\/photo by Jon Warren)<\/p>\n<p>[vc_single_image image=&rdquo;15647&Prime; img_size=&rdquo;medium&rdquo;]&ldquo;That&rsquo;s my mother, father, and brother by our beautiful house in Syria. The day is sunny, and there are butterflies,&rdquo; says Yasmin, 9. In the middle panel, she attends the Child-Friendly Space in Lebanon. &ldquo;In the future, I want to be a teacher in Syria. That&rsquo;s a cabinet with books in the classroom. I&rsquo;ll give gifts to all the students,&rdquo; she says. (&copy;2016 World Vision\/photo by Jon Warren)<\/p>\n<p>[vc_single_image image=&rdquo;15650&Prime; img_size=&rdquo;medium&rdquo;]Faras, 11, remembers herding sheep in Syria with his brother. Now the happiest thing in his life is coming to the Child-Friendly Space so he draws the bus he rides. &ldquo;In the future I want to go back to Syria and be a student. I&rsquo;m not in school here,&rdquo; he says. (&copy;2016 World Vision\/photo by Jon Warren)<\/p>\n<p>[vc_single_image image=&rdquo;15700&Prime; img_size=&rdquo;medium&rdquo;]Habib, 9, recalls a helicopter dropping bombs near his home. He draws himself with a sad face near his house. &ldquo;The house is okay. The bombs exploded the neighbors&rsquo; house. I saw it; many were killed,&rdquo; he says, including members of his family. The Child-Friendly Space he attends is the subject of the middle panel. &ldquo;Sometimes he doesn&rsquo;t want to draw, but he feels rest here,&rdquo; says the adult facilitator, Huda. His future picture shows him on a motorcycle on a sunny day. (&copy;2016 World Vision\/photo by Jon Warren)<\/p>\n<p>[vc_single_image image=&rdquo;15699&Prime; img_size=&rdquo;medium&rdquo;]Flowers, trees, sunshine, birds, and her house in Syria are Raghad&rsquo;s picture of the past (bottom panel). In the middle is her family&rsquo;s tent in Lebanon. &ldquo;There are not really trees and flowers there, but I love them so I put some in,&rdquo; says the 11-year-old. In the future, she wants to teach English in Syria. &ldquo;The children ride the bus to school, and the walls of the school protect them.&rdquo; (&copy;2016 World Vision\/photo by Jon Warren)<\/p>\n<p>[vc_single_image image=&rdquo;15656&Prime; img_size=&rdquo;medium&rdquo;]Mayass, 11, pictures herself playing with her toys in Syria when she was younger. &ldquo;What happened? It was all destroyed. There&rsquo;s nothing here,&rdquo; she says. In the middle panel, she shows the school she now attends. &ldquo;In the future, I would like to be a bird and live in freedom,&rdquo; says Mayass. (&copy;2016 World Vision\/photo by Jon Warren)<\/p>\n<p>[vc_single_image image=&rdquo;15657&Prime; img_size=&rdquo;medium&rdquo;]At the bottom of her picture, Marah, 12, drew water and a book open to a story. &ldquo;&lsquo;Once upon a time &hellip;&rsquo; that&rsquo;s my past story in Syria.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s represented by a dripping candle and a heart. The present she represents by a &ldquo;sea of blood and a dark cloud.&rdquo; In the future, she hopes the dark will fade. &ldquo;I hope the future will light up the world,&rdquo; says Marah. (&copy;2016 World Vision\/photo by Jon Warren)<\/p>\n<p>[vc_single_image image=&rdquo;15653&Prime; img_size=&rdquo;medium&rdquo;]Abdul, 10, drew the car his father drove in Syria. &ldquo;We were happy in our house in Syria. My father went to work by car. He was a builder man,&rdquo; says Abdul. In the center panel &ldquo;there&rsquo;s a plane, rockets fall, and there are two sad people,&rdquo; he says. In the future, he&rsquo;s safe at home in Syria. &ldquo;I love Syria more. I don&rsquo;t want to draw Lebanon,&rdquo; he says. (&copy;2016 World Vision\/photo by Jon Warren)<\/p>\n<p>[vc_single_image image=&rdquo;15649&Prime; img_size=&rdquo;medium&rdquo;]&ldquo;It starts out that all is well. Small houses, a school, children. I remember the sounds of children on the playground, their smiles. Then the school is broken,&rdquo; says Huda, 50, a facilitator in the Child-Friendly Space.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The stars are people in my past who have died,&rdquo; says Huda. &ldquo;So many people lost. Now they are &hellip; shining in my memory.&rdquo; In the present, &ldquo;I am a bee. &hellip; I must work hard for my hive &hellip; my family, the children, my people.&rdquo; For the future: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m looking for peace, for freedom. I drew [the people] that way to show they are open-minded. To be among them will make me happy.&rdquo; (&copy;2016 World Vision\/photo by Jon Warren)<\/p>\n<p>[vc_single_image image=&rdquo;15658&Prime; img_size=&rdquo;medium&rdquo;]Mona, 12, says the bright light of Syria went out suddenly, like a candle (right panel). &ldquo;I am in the center crying, because there were bombs and people died. In the future (left panel) I want to be an Arabic teacher and to be happy.&rdquo; (&copy;2016 World Vision\/photo by Jon Warren)<\/p>\n<p>[vc_single_image image=&rdquo;15698&Prime; img_size=&rdquo;medium&rdquo;]In his picture from the past, Yahia, 11, plays ball with friends by his house in Syria. There&rsquo;s beauty in Lebanon &mdash; trees and flowers &mdash; but no people in his drawing from the present. &ldquo;I love Lebanon, but I love Syria more,&rdquo; he says. In the future, Yahia, a famous singer, holds a microphone and sings while others dance. 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