NEXT ACTIONS
Workshop Set Up at Eko Project, Vasilika, Greece
The Childhood Rescue Project will return to EKO’s camp this winter for a third time with the objective of setting up a creative workshop. They will then train and entrust the running of this workshop to the camp residents, in the hopes that they will give continuity to this initiative. In addition to photography and toy-making workshops.
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If you would like to contribute to this initiative, please do so here.
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Video-Letter Exchange Program
As a leading member of the Centro de Referencia da Crianças e do Adolescente (Center of Reference for the Children and Youth), Lele was single-handedly responsible for a exchange project, where she travelled between different public schools recording video letters where one child would explain a game that they were playing. Lele would then take this video-letter and show it to kids in another school, creating a chain effect of play-intelligence, amplifying the repertoire in that public school system. We hope to integrate our video-literacy workshops into a similar chain-effect, and to provide bridges between several refugee populations, always asserting that their material limitations are no impediment to their creative ability.
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Karen will lend her skills by teaching basic video literacy to the kids, so they can record their own video-letters, making use of available light and optimizing the uses of in-camera sound recording. By facilitating an exchange of video letters with other camp residents we will amplify their play-repertoire with limited resources.
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To contribute towards this program, please contact us here.
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Childhood Rescue Project, the movie
Next time the Childhood Rescue Project goes back in the field in January, Karen Sztajnberg will film the process of setting up the workshop in Greece and the unfoldings of the video-letter exchange program.
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Karen’s objective as a filmmaker is to portray how individual participation will become increasingly important as we witness a demise of the ideals of common welfare from a governmental perspective.
This documentary feature film has two objectives:
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To show how two headstrong and warm-hearted individuals can rise above complacency and have direct positive impact in a situation that would leave most of us limp with frustration.
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To document the intricacies of the Syrian refugee’s plight in Greece and to follow the conflicts that arise from different agendas being implemented on this errant population. The camp as a microcosm, will render visible the overwhelming burdens being placed on humanitarian aid, and foreground the importance of civilian participation.
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To be involved, or participate towards this film, please find us here.