Save the Children-Eye-to-Eye, Lebanon (PP)
Project manager: Save the Children UK & Pete Fryer
Project title: Eye-to-Eye
Photography by Palestinian children in refugee camps in Lebanon
"Once I wanted to play with friends. We couldn't find any place except the narrow streets to play. We don't want to play near rubbish"
This photograph was taken in 2002 by Yousef, aged 13 years, of Ein el Hilweh Camp, Lebanon
The Eye-to-Eye project was developed specifically for the purpose of allowing Palestinian children, who are isolated within refugee camps with little means of communicating with the outside world, to express themselves creatively and share their work with their peers around the world. It aims to create an informed climate of public awareness, in the UK and globally, of the lives of these children who are fourth generation refugees, and the problems they face living in refugee camps. It explores their lives in the context of their rights as set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the
Child (UNCRC). Many children have taken up our invitation to respond to the issues raised on the site by posting messages on the site's message board.
To find out information on this project please go to: www.savethechildren.org.uk/eyetoeye/