Svitac and Amica make a world for UNITED's International Day against Fascism and Antisemitsm
When we heard about the chance to participate in the International Day against Fascism and Antisemitism we thought of Amica – Kuća Prijateljstva (house of friendship) as the perfect place to do that. Amica is a youth centre in which there are Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian and Roma children all together. We took photos!
We wanted to come up with a project that would make the topic a bit more understandable for the children. We thought of all the different people in the world who still have one thing in common: they share the same planet. “Different people – one world”. The idea was then to create an Earth with all these different people together.
We got UNITED posters and postcards that we distributed at the SVITAC and Amica youth centres in order to reach as many people as possible. I prepared a big balloon with glue and old newspapers to be our earth.
On the 5th of November I went to Amica with Dina, Svitac’s volunteer coordinator, and Tamara, one of our new local volunteers.
We took all the materials we needed with us – water colors, paper, glue, old clothes, plumes and other decoration stuff.
At Amica there were already ten children and two women of the staff waiting for us, so all in all we were 15 people to work out our planned project.
The first thing was to color the earth blue. Since it was so big, many children were able to do it together.
Meanwhile an 11-year-old boy drew the continents. He had a small globe as a model. Then we colored the different parts in various colors.
When the other children were finished with painting the earth we all started together to create the inhabitants of our world. We drew, painted, cut out and glued Europeans, Asians, Africans and Indians.
The last step was to make the people settle their world. We hung them very mixed from the bottom of the earth.
It was big fun for everybody of us and the children are very proud of the outcome, every time I visit them they remind me of the workshop.
Dina documented the whole project in photos. Svitac Director Gordana then chose some of these photos to share with UNITED.
