Reports | 25 05 2020
The United Nations Children's Fund "UNICEF" under the title "Moment 2," and in collaboration with the Mahrajan al-Sourah Association, launched a photographic exhibition of photos taken by Syrian refugee children in Lebanon, in the al-Madinah theater, in downtown Beirut.
The project comprised distributing five hundred cameras to Syrian refugee children, who were trained to use them and given the freedom to communicate their vision of the bitterness of asylum and the difficulty of living in tents.
Suha Bustani, in-charge of UNICEF Media relations told Rozana that these pictures convey real moments experienced by children on a daily basis in the camps.
She added that "the project (Moment 2) began with Dar al-Musawwir, who had previously done similar work in the Palestinian camps. We contacted them, as we saw this as being different than many other similar projects. It aims to deliver a message to the world about the suffering of Syrian children, but as viewed through their own eyes."
The cameras that were distributed to the children were of the instant, single-use type, according to the UNICEF in-charge. She also confirmed that the experience was a great success, because it gave children to capture a moment of their lives, their hope to one day return to their country, and speak to those who stayed in Syria of their harsh experiences.
Amira Alamuddine, one of initative's supervisors, said the the striking aspect was that the children did not depict their current reality; they rather depicted the way their lives had been in Syria, and their dream of one day returning to their homeland.
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