Description
Roma and non-Roma children living in foster- and correctional institutions often face exclusion in their everyday life. The aim of the project is to decrease prejudices between the Roma and the non-Roma children by using art therapy, by joint artistic activities, to create cooperation and mutual acceptance. Young people will work on their experience with regards exclusion, their traumas will dissolve, their self-confidence and identities will be strengthened. Our most important project activities are: teamwork with the children, filming, post-production, screening the feature films - in the institutions and in a public cinema. Each workgroup will be organized once a week in all institutions. In all teamwork all decisions will be made by all participants. Films will be based on true stories of the children. The filming of these traumatic episodes will be the solution of the children’s traumas. Our project could become the pilot of a medium-size project. We would like to transmit our know-how and methods to other professionals and disseminate it through them. We would like to project our films at the VI th Kid’s Eye Film festival in 2017.
Summary of project results
The aim of the project was to reduce segregation in the micro-community of children living in children's homes. In the institutions it was a formulated need to diminish prejudice among Hungarian and Roma children, and to strengthen tolerance and the acceptance of one another. In the project, we formulated mixed film-making groups of Roma, half-Roma and Hungarian children of three target institutions – Aszód Detention Home, Hűvösvölgy Children's Home, Szegletkő Special Children's Home – and the children created three films in each institution. Making a film is a collective work, and thus it achieved to make children cooperate, to get to know each other better and the process reduced mistrust and exclusionary behaviour among them. Another very important outcome of the project was that the group work of art therapy could provide help to the participating youth to process their traumatic experience through a creative work and to develop their personalities.
Summary of bilateral results