By Maria Karra | Project Leader
The workshop at the Thiva Refugee Open Hospitality Structure is still running strong and with a good number of participating children.
The warm, mild weather conditions have assisted the project to create even more interest and buzz; children are now able to be occupied for longer hours within the day and capture moments of the flourishing, spring nature. Their colorfull captions show the change in their mood; they seem happier, more playfull and positive. There is a demand from the 15+ young participants to focus on more technical parts of photography, which makes us wonder if this is a sign for a more committed approach to photography being also a professional direction.
Our project team members are concurrently witnessing and documenting the encouraging change of emotions in the children, as well as their family members. As of May, we are anticipating holding one monthly joint workshop with the students and their parents in order to explore story telling from the entire members of a family.
On the side of the day to day routine, the highlight for the children was the week where our team members were filming for our project video "Taking Young Syrians to a healing journey through photography with GlobalGiving". Our young students have actively assisted the project and we are so proud of what they were able to achieve.
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