Children Painting Their Rights [Archives:2000/42/Last Page]

The project of children painting their rights has started in September 1998. It is meant to increase peoples awareness of the childs rights. The project has focussed on the childrens art abilities specially in the countryside and remote districts. The project has issued posters and a book containing creative contributions of the Yemeni children, reflected their deep understanding of the childrens rights in education, choosing their own future and in life.
On Wednesday 11th Oct 2000 the activities of the first exhibition of childrens paintings started at the national museum , where one thousand children displayed their paintings. The exhibition will last for seven days. The exhibition will grant a chance to a large number of children from centers of orphans and disabled to show their talents and how effective they could be in the Yemeni society.
The British ambassador Mr. Vic Henderson as well as Mr. Zain Al.Abiddin Fuad , the executive director of the project attended the opening ceremony.
The British ambassador said children suffer from negligence and are deprived from their rights.
The creative idea of this project involves starting workshops with the children discussing their rights for a peaceful living, their rights of having a clean environment, and so on.
The paintings you see today are samples of hundreds of paintings the children drew in those workshops.
A book of uncolored paintings was issued to enable a large number of children to color those paintings themselves. It is another way of showing those painting to a larger number of children. In addition to that the exhibition will tour the country trying to influence more people and make them see the rights of children.
its my pleasure to say that the Embassy of Holland will finance a large number of those workshops
Mr. Zain Al.Abiddin Fuad , the coordinator said the project was started 8 years ago when the schools didnt have any paintings for children nor any rights.
At the beginning of stage three of the project we decided to head for a large number of disabled children and orphans. The exhibition has already toured 7 governorates. This exhibition is the first without being supervised by the ministry of education.

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