Razan by David Gross

We Were Strangers Too

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Proceeds support the Anti-Defamation League, the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agency, fighting anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights for all. We Were Strangers Too is a collection of designs showing how diverse and universal the refugee experience truly is.

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Design By: David Gross

The paintings in this series were made by Syrian refugee children as part of program to bring psychological survival skills to refugee children. The Inside-Outside Project and Artivism.rocks visited schools in Reyhanli, Gaziantep and Kahramanmara (Turkey), and in Jbeil and Beirut (Lebanon). Artivism.rocks is a program to teach psychological survival skills to refugee children. There is not enough psychosocial support for refugees, many of whom symptoms of trauma from their war experiences. The seeds of future wars is planted in the children of today's wars, and Artivism.rocks hopes to bring easy to implement, low-cost, reproducible help to better the lives of children of war - to reduce the future effects of today's wars. Learn more about Artivism.rocks at http://artivism.rocks/ See photographs of the children at http://insideoutsideproject.org/

 

Design By: David Gross

The paintings in this series were made by Syrian refugee children as part of program to bring psychological survival skills to refugee children. The Inside-Outside Project and Artivism.rocks visited schools in Reyhanli, Gaziantep and Kahramanmara (Turkey), and in Jbeil and Beirut (Lebanon). Artivism.rocks is a program to teach psychological survival skills to refugee children. There is not enough psychosocial support for refugees, many of whom symptoms of trauma from their war experiences. The seeds of future wars is planted in the children of today's wars, and Artivism.rocks hopes to bring easy to implement, low-cost, reproducible help to better the lives of children of war - to reduce the future effects of today's wars. Learn more about Artivism.rocks at http://artivism.rocks/ See photographs of the children at http://insideoutsideproject.org/

 

Artist Statement

The drawing by a 13-year-old Syrian refugee girl shows the moment that her mother came into her house to find her son dead in the bed, riddled with bullets. The daughter, Razan, is crying. Bleeding objects are very common in the children’s drawings. — David Gross