Teaching About Refugees
 
Resources for ages 9-11 in Art


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"Crossing the River Gillo"

Painting by Mac Anyat, aged 17, Sudanese, Kakuma refugee camp

"It was terrible. People shouting, screaming: 'Run, swim, go, go!' Where was my friend? He was taken by the river. Nobody was anybody's friend. How can you be a friend when people are shooting at you and the river is going whoosh - and you have to go in that river? The bang, bang and whoosh, whoosh made my mind go dead and I don't remember who was there, who died, what happened."