By Artolution | #jointheartolution
Since our last report, our Rohingya Artolution Artists have created history.
Our Rohingya Artolution artist team has grown in both in size and scope. The team of artists has grown from 8 to ten members, 5-women and 5-men. We have created new partnerships with key internationally renowned organizations within the camp and have furthered the leadership capacity of our Rohingya artists by ensuring that they are trained in public health topics. Our artists have developed arts-based messaging in the areas of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) information as well as Psychosocial support (PSS) information. The messages that are developed in collaboration with the local refugee communities support disease prevention and increase awarenes around mental health issues within the largest refugee camp in the world.
Our team opened the first-ever Artolution Rohingya Art Center. At the center our artists are able to provide ongoing workshops for refugee youth and ensure that Rohingya culture and tradition is preserved and shared at the center. But, if you ask our team, they will tell you they are creating an art village!
Finally, for the first time in the history of the Rohingya crisis, Rohingya refugee children were brought out of the camp to work with a local Bengali school. Creativity, and giving children the opportunity to collaborate won again! The stories of all the children were painted on a large-scale public wall. Despite tensions, the histories of the children are intertwined. The stories of the youth are now woven together in the artistic expressions that they have shared with the world for the first time ever on this wall mural. The children have collaborated to tell a new history, that they are unified and capable of changing the world. Bengali and Rohingya children used the shared light bulb between a pair of children to express that the key to the future is to share ideas with each other. With this collaborative expression of art, the future is here, and the Bengali and Rohingya children are its leaders.
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