Thirty-two seventh-grade students from the Jorge Gaitán Durán educational institution, from the Agua Clara district in Cúcuta, lived a recreational day to think about and imagine peace and how to foster it in their environment.
The event is part of the program ‘My future is today’, led by the Ministry of Human Rights of the Presidency, and in which the Unit for Victims, UNICEF and the Workers’ Circle participate.
The activity, organized within the framework of the action of non-repetition of violent acts, included a pedagogical workshop for children to have the tools that help them to prevent child recruitment and the emergence of violent acts that violate them.
For more than four hours, children thought of images and colors that exalt coexistence in harmony among human beings. To materialize their ideas, the Unit for Victims, which was present through the accompaniment professional María Oliva Suárez, gave them vinyls, paints, sprays, temperas, rollers, brushes, brushes and paper.
With the materials they illustrated hands, hugs and smiles with which they expressed everything that coexistence means in peace. At the end, the students and the coordinator of the school committed themselves to putting into practice and replicating the methodology worked on, bearing in mind that several of the drawings that were made in the workshop will be replicated in one of the murals of the school.
The goal is for artistic activities to be part of the daily life of students and help them stay away from the different violent events that surround the community.
