We presented the children who helped us paint the murals with official Lafarge diplomas to congratulate them for all their hard work and creative involvement. (Lafarge is the sponsor of this project, aka Florence's husband's company). Go positive reinforcement!
Quick recap: Barzinjah is a small village in the Kurdish mountains, an hour east of Sulaymaniyah.
The refugee camp there holds over a hundred Arab Iraqis pushed out of their homes by ISIS. Kurdistan Save the Children is involved in the camp to work with the kids to facilitate education and leisure for them. We coordinated mural painting days with the children, enlarging their drawings on the wall and letting them paint it. We worked on two sites in Barzinjah, inside the camp and at the school in the village.
Before and after pictures, drum rolls please.
At the camp:
This was actually a construction site, and we finished the painting at the same time they finished placing the bricks and cleaning up. Loving how we started on a cloudy day and ended on a beautiful sunny day. Doomsday to resurrection.
School:
DO YOU REALIZE HOW MUCH TIME IT TOOK US TO
PAINT THOSE LITTLE LINES FOR THE PALM TREES?!
DO YOU THINK THIS IS A GAME?!?
Don't worry, we still had a great time.
All right, that's the recap.
Like I was saying earlier, we organized an event to congratulate the kids, and of course to have a proper goodbye. Sniff, sniff.
We brought cookies, juice boxes, stickers, photos, and of course the diplomas. Mr. Rachid (Florence's husband) was the guest of honor and distributed the diplomas to 100 children. It got a wee bit hectic but we managed.
I filmed the whole thing, so stay tuned for a video coming to a blog near you.
I did, however, take adorable pictures before and after the ceremony.
Can I haz?
Go little pals!!
Killing the game.
But every great thing must come to an end. Until next time, little pals.
dude the pictures of these kids makes me think of humans of new york (and when he went to syria and did a photo project there) !!!
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