By Maria Karra | Project Leader
Emfasis Foundation Project team has:
- Finally secured a children safe area off campus to conduct the project, providing with the right amount of privacy and tranquility so that the children remain undisturbed from the rest of the tension at the various campuses.
- We have now a permanent team, trained and experienced with dealing with youth and older children, forming a solid bond with them and encouraging them to let go and express themselves freely when attending our workshops.
- Created more mini instruction manuals in Arabic which helps as a simple reminder and point of reference for the basic technical functions of the cameras.
- the Senior Photographer/Streetworker Solon, has put together 2 main themes for phase B of the project, one is “Home Away From Home” and the second being “People and Things” which seemed to be the most burning matters in the children’s minds, after discussing with them.
- We have so far ran 7 workshops with a participation of 19 children for each session, every session gets more engaging and especially when going outdoors, we feel it is truly a unique experience for them to look at things under a different “lens”
- Our Senior Children Psychologist has already created 32 individual profiles of the youth, overseeing the process and ensuring that it goes in the right direction of healing.
- We have dedicated the upper area in our office to create the first photo lab off site, so that the psychologists and the photographer can analyse and view in detail what comes out of the children.
- During the Festive Season and because of the very low temperatures, parents were reluctant to allow us to take the children out for outdoor shoots, so it has been more about exploring more different aspects of the cameras. Post festive and provided that the weather improves, we will pursue with the outdoor workshops once again.
P.S. Until the completion of the project and for safety reasons, we have given our reassurance that we will refrain from full frontal children photos. During the photo exhibition, the children may pose with their parents’ consent.
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