Our Projects

• Kite exchange - A kite exchange between students at schools in New York City and Los Angeles and the refugee children from Darfur.
• Painted gifts - Kites painted by students in the USA were taken as gifts to the camp in Eastern Chad on the border of Darfur.
• Art workshops - The children living at Oure Cassoni participated in a week of art workshops which culminated in hundreds of beautifully painted kites, each kite telling one child’s story of loss and devastation as well as hope for the future.
• International Rescue Fundraiser - These kites were displayed at fundraisers for the International Rescue Committee’s work in Darfur and Chad.
  

Sharing with the Children in Shelters in Democratic Republic of Congo
Art of Humanity worked together with Unicef, in October 2008, to bring healing and hope to the children in shelters. Two programs were undertaken:

• Hand-painted T-shirt exchange – Children at inner city schools in New York were able to exchange t-shirts with children formerly of the armed forces in Bukavu and Goma, Congo. Four schools in the Bronx received funding, through DonorsChoose.org, to enable their students to paint 250 t-shirts to be distributed to the children in the DRC.
• Lanterns telling a story fundraiser – A high school in downtown Manhattan made 50 solar lanterns for an IDP camp in North Kivu. Then, child victims of rape and the armed forces living at shelters in Bukavu painted lanterns telling their stories. These lanterns are being auctioned off at fundraisers for the Congo in New York City and Los Angeles. The hope is that the stories told in these lanterns will raise awareness as to the atrocities happening in the Democratic Republic of Congo today..