Sunday 16 June 2013

Dr Sameh Otri

Refugee Week: Three Syrian

stories from Eye on Wales


"When I returned I heard that the Assad regime had attacked that camp, with aircraft and shelling.
(For the second trip to a school) we collected art materials for educational workshops. We used to go early in the morning to 7pm, trying to draw a smile on the children's faces.
We asked them to draw whatever they think. They drew tanks and people fighting. Then we gave them a star or a heart or a butterfly - nice images - to change it.
It is a platform to talk about their experience. They talk about how they lost their mother or father or how their brothers are still inside Syria.
They all have stories about how they saw death in front of them."

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