Aziza and Chaghouri with Lebanese Minister of Youth and Sports Mohammad Fneish.
MIRI: The Paint the World youth movement recently held a project in Lebanon.
Founder Aziza Aznizan said she worked on the project with a group of students from the EU Business School Barcelona, led by Lebanese youths Christopher Chaghouri and Maria Nour Jazzar.
“With a convoy of cars, we drove to the corners of Lebanon, from Beirut where we met with the Minister of Youth and Sports Lebanon, through to the mountains where we organised a football game with children whom we brought by bus, and to the edges of Lebanon, the borders of Syria, where we interacted with the Syrian refugees and played with the children,” she told The Borneo Post yesterday.
“It was definitely an eye-opening experience, even for the Lebanese themselves.”
Paint the World members with some of the Lebanese children.
Aziza said seeing how happy the people were even though they were in refugee camps with barely a tent over their heads made group members think how much one could be taking life for granted.
“The violence and aggression they have faced from their home country to the unlucky unwelcomed encounters with the locals in Lebanon, life is hard for them, yet their smiles when approached by a group of young ‘painters’ were heart-warming,” she said.
Aziza said the group also did face painting for the orphans, played numerous games, as well as presented supplies for the refugee camp’s school along with T-shirts.
Aziza said the movement will hold a mini concert at the Pustaka Miri Auditorium next Friday (Aug 24) from 3pm to 5pm.
“It will be an intimate programme especially for the orphans and the autistic,” she said.