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• Artistic output activities

  • Drawing

  

  Comics by students at GS Remera Protestant

  • Rwanda

  • Cultivating well-being and mental health
  • Tackling child and gender-based violence

  This is a comic book explaining how children were physically abused and how they were comforted and healed through consolation. The writing and drawing shows two causes of mental health problems in children, alcoholism and domestic violence, and suggests ways of tackling the problem. It explains how children’s friendship and humanity can save many desperate...

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• Artistic output activities

  • Performance art

  

  Song: Mbera Incuti (I am a friend)

  • Rwanda

  • Tackling child and gender-based violence

  Mbera Incuti (I am a friend) song performance by students at GS Remera Protestant, 2022. This is a children’s song performance that encourages parents and teachers to be kinder to their children, as this will help them feel better....

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• • Drawing

  

  Drawings by students at APEC Kibondo

  It shows how children can develop mental health problems as a result of parental negligence....

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• Artistic output activities

  

  A Poem: Humura Nturi Wenyine

  • Rwanda

  Translated as: Be comforted, you are not alone I have raised my voice I have come to comfort you I have come to speak to you, children of Rwanda. The Rwanda of yesterday is the one that gave birth to you. I’m here to take care of you. You are not alone, I know there...

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• Artistic output activities

  • Drawing

  

  Drawings by students at GS Buhaza

  • Rwanda

  • Cultivating well-being and mental health

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• Artistic output activities

  • Performance art

  

  Performance of a peace song by Kihere Youth Club members

  • Rwanda

  • Cultivating well-being and mental health

  Kirehe Youth Club members, Rwanda, are performing a peace song during a listening session on 11 June 2021....

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• Artistic output activities

  • Drawing

  

  Drawings by students at GS Remera Protestant

  • Rwanda

  • Cultivating well-being and mental health

  It is a drawing that sends a message to people that if someone is struggling with mental health issues, it is important to be supportive and comforting and make time for them....

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• Manuals and toolkits

  • Mural

  

  Manuals and toolkits: Youth Participatory Mural Guidebook

  • Indonesia

  The AHRC PhD student, Vina Puspita, explores youth participatory murals with Children’s Forums in Jakarta, Indonesia. Following a series of mural projects that took place from July to December 2022, young people, together with youth facilitators and Vina, co-created a guidebook with content drawn from the process and experience of creating murals in four locations...

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• • Drawing
  • Exhibition

  

  Drawings: The World through The Eyes of Children

  • Kyrgyzstan

  • Tackling child and gender-based violence

  The MAP School Club organised a drawing competition entitled “The World through the Eyes of Children”, which focused on the issue of violence against children. This theme included bullying, early marriage, migration of parents, and other issues that children could see in their community. The competition was held in all pilot schools. Selected drawings were...

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• • Music

  

  A performance of Komuz and singing by Symbat Z.

  • Kyrgyzstan

  • Cultivating well-being and mental health
  • Tackling child and gender-based violence

  Symbat, a young MAP participant from Jalal Abad, is trying to address the issue of parental migration through songwriting and music. One of the identified problems in society is that parents, in search of better job opportunities abroad, leave their children without parental care. Recognising the importance of this situation, Symbat has used her artistic...

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