Health & Art Workshops
Art workshops have been designed to increase awareness of these deadly diseases in Jordan by involving high school-aged youth (14-17 years old) in art-based informational workshops featuring creative activities and discussion.
A large and growing body of research has confirmed a link between learning via the arts and higher academic performance. Arts-based learning also allows for outlets of self-expression that are not accessible through conventional lecture-based training.
Professional educators from the Ministry of Health have visited various schools in different governorates to educate children about AIDS.
They will also promote a hotline that has been set up for people to call to ask advice about the disease.
The workshops are being held in partnership with the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts.
MENA Friends Paintings Competition:
During the wide implementation of the art and health workshops all around Jordan, MENA Friends has collected a good number of well expressive piece of arts drawn by the students who attended the sessions. After receiving a brief about the diseases and by the assistance of professional artists, the students were asked "How does life look like with and without diseases?"… see below some of their answers and vote for the best painting in order to have a chance to win many prizes, and in order also to support one of the kids to be the winner of the health art competition of the year of 2011.
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