Drawings by Eritrean refugee children from Aaidun and Nidal Elementary in Kassala, South East Sudan, with accompanying stories written by children of Flemington Primary School, Melbourne Australia.
To learn more about Eritrean Australian Humanitarian Aid (EAHA) and how you can help refugee children in Sudan through education, visit https://eahaid.wordpress.com/about/ or email eahaid@gmail.com
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The Magnificent House
One night
there lived a girl. Her name was Bella,
aged nine years old. Her favourite thing
to do was drawing very big houses with lots of detail and colour. Bella loved drawing plants like sunflowers,
roses and daisies. One day Bella and her
parents went on an adventure all around their home town. Suddenly her parents spotted a wonderfully
amazing home with lots of detail and plants.
Bella was so excited because she had never seen such a magnificent house
in all her life. When Bella went home
she drew the house but she put in lots more detail and colour. After that she had to stop because she had to
go to her Aunty’s place. When she got there she had a massive big
surprise. They had bought her a puppy.
TO BE
CONTINUED …..
There was a beach with Poti fish
There were kids
going round, the sun was growing
There were trees waving around.
The sand was smooth.
The
Faraway Land
One fine
summer morning there was a boy named Mahdi and a man named Angus. Angus lived on a faraway island in a small
house by himself.
One cold
morning Angus heard the cupboard open and shut and a flush of the toilet.
And said
to Victoria and to TV news reporters what had happened. Then everyone called it haunted but Mahdi did
not. He went to check it out. He found a walky-talky toilet. The toilet said “what’s up, want to play
golf.” So Mahdi said “why not, I want to
play.” So they became friends and Mahdi
said to Angus that it was not a ghost.
Angus and
the toilet became friends and they all ate KFC and got fat.
The End
The Very
Bad Accident.
A long
time ago there lived two sisters name Nelly and Melinie. Nelly and Melinie go to church. The times they go are 6.00am on Sundays. They would also go at 7pm Wednesdays
too. If they wanted to do anything at
those times they would just have to miss it.
But one day Melinie hurt her leg very badly, she couldn’t walk but it
was not broken. On Sunday Melinie
couldn’t go to church, but instead of Nelly staying she still went to
church. At church the Priest asked where
Melinie was. Nelly told him what
happened. The Priest told Nelly to make
up for what Melinie did. The Priest made
Melinie go to the amazing garden. Nelly
told Melinie so she went to the amazing garden.
The Priest made her promise never to not go to church. She kept her promise.
The End
The Big
Adventure The Young Boy Has
Once upon
a time there was a young boy who lived in a normal house with his family. One day there was a massive wind that blew
everyone in the house away because they lived in a house made out of
straw. When the wind blew the family
away they all blew different ways because they were skinny and had not eaten
any food because they were poor. When
the wind stopped the young boy landed on grass.
He had no idea where he was so he got scared. He started walking straight. He got really tired and puffed out so he
decided to have a rest so he sat down under a tree that was empty. He was so hungry he looked up to the sky
because the tree was blocking his way.
When he looked up there was a bunch of something red and really shiny. He looked closer. It was a bunch of really shiny red
cherries. He tried reaching the
cherries, and tried again. He got the
cherries so quickly. His tummy was full
so now he continued walking. He walked
and walked until he heard a noise that sounded scary. He was so brave, so he checked it out. It was a scarecrow chasing Sponge Bob.
The End
The Girl
That Hated Moving Houses
Once there
was a girl that hated moving houses. She
was 10 years old and her name was Amy.
One day her parents had some bad news.
They said that they were going to move to Melbourne because her father
had a new job. They told her to pack all
her things to get ready for tomorrow.
She said goodbye to all her friends and all her teachers. The next morning they left with their car to
Melbourne. After they arrived Amy hated
the place. The house was ugly and the
garden had too, too, too many flowers
and the flowers smelt like bees. Amy had
enough so she ran back to her old house and her parents were calling her name
but Amy didn’t answer. So her parents
went looking for her. They looked
everywhere but their old house so at the end they went there to look at the old
house and they found her watching TV in the old house so they lived at the old
house for ever!!!
The End
The
Beautiful Magical Flower
Once there
was a poor princess. The story how she
became poor was a few years ago. She
left her mum and dad because they were too old to look after her and they
adopted the princess to a mean family.
The mean family did not love the princess so they sent the princess
outside and she found her way into the forest.
She was worried because she forgot her way out and was stuck in the
middle of nowhere. She found a place to
sleep that was very uncomfortable. The next morning the princess was very tired
because she had a bad sleep.
The Long
Trip to the Warrior Place.
Hi I’m
going to this place where warriors used to fight. My name is Tattya. Well I’d better be going now, bye. I still sit in a booster seat because I am
still 7. Away we go. It’s a very long way. Then my Mummy gave me a map of the warrior
place. Then we finally got there. I hopped out of the car and I see out of the
corner of my eye, a canon. I run over to
the canon and I see a handle. Oh I just
can’t say what I did. I pushed the handle, and out flew the canon and it landed
on my Mum’s foot. Oh how she yelled and
yelled. I ran over to her and said, Oh
are you okay? I think I need the doctor.
I got my Mum’s phone and called the doctor. The doctor came and said it’s broken. He turned to me and said you’d better come
and sleep with me for the night. I did,
and my Mum went to hospital. The next day my mum came home and lived happily
ever after.
But that
did not mean the trouble had ended because soon the child that you know called
Tattya went off into the forest by herself.
She should be going for a walk, but instead she walked off the path into
the real forest. It was very scary in there.
I walked and walked for a vvvvveeeerrrryyyyyyyy long time. It felt like
days – long, long days. Suddenly I saw a glow in the distance. I walked towards it. It was a really big clock.
The Poor
Family
In Iraq in
the desert there was a family called the Ali family. They were very poor. There was Mum called Aisha, a Dad called
Muhamed and they had a son called Aldi.
Aldi was only ten years old. They
lived in a tiny hut that was cracked, cracked and scratched and there were no
windows so they couldn’t see what was going on outside.
Aisha had
just finished making dinner. She called
Muhamed and Aldi to eat. Muhamed came
but Aldi didn’t. “Where’s Aldi?” said
Aisha in a grumpy voice. But there was
no sight of Aldi. “Do you think he ran
away?” said Aisha in a sad voice. The
Mohamed saw a note stuck to the wall. It
was from Aldi, I said Dear Mum and Dad.
I have run away because there are people after me.
Aldi had
run away to a bigger hut that had been abandoned and was in the middle of
nowhere. It was night and Aldi was
scared. He heard noises outside. Aldi saw a gun and bullets. He grabbed the gun and went outside in the
cold frosty night. He looked around and
there was nothing there. He went back to
sleep and when he woke up he found himself in a car. The car fell down a mountain but as it hit
the ground, Aldi woke up. “Oh, thank
goodness it was a dream,” said Aldi.
Aldi got dressed and went and helped his Dad outside. That’s the life of the Ali family.
All
Animals Are Equal
Another
boring day in the jungle. Everybody
knows cats don’t belong in the jungle.
“If only I
has some friends,” I said quietly to myself.
All those stupid animals do to me is tease me.
I was
getting ready for the rocks to be thrown at me by the monkeys. Usually I was lucky and they missed but
sometimes I wasn’t so lucky and they hit me.
When I approached the area they didn’t throw any rocks. There was a human, I have only ever seen a
human once. What I think was that he was
trying to save me. Finally someone
actually cared for me.
But I will
still be tortured by the annoying water hogs that chase me and shout rude
comments. But again the human was there.
So I
walked up to him and asked him what his name was and thanked him. He replied “Jake, what’s yours?” “I don’t
have one” I replied. “I’ve been watching you for a long time and I don’t think
you should be treated like that” Jake said. So they told everyone to stop teasing
the cat who got a new name which was Sarah.
And they lived happily ever after.
The Empty
House Upon the Stars.
Once upon
a time there was an abandoned empty house in the sky. There were two stars and an upside down
crescent moon on top of the house. Ten
years later a group of Aborigines found the abandoned house and they all agreed
to make it their new house inside because it had a roof to keep them warm for
at least a full night. They started
getting rid of all the old cobwebs and at midday they grabbed all the materials
to make it feel a lot more homely. The
next week after they woke up and saw a big leak they went to hunt for animal
skin to fill up the leak.
In the
jungle they were as silent as a tiger and luckily found two deer so they grabbed
their throwing knife and tossed it and they hit him right in the guts. When they got back they chopped down a tree
and made a wooded ladder. They climbed
up the ladder and plugged up the hole and lived happily and loved their new
home.
The End
It is a cold dark morning in Morocco and I am tired. I woke up 3 times last night. It was terrible. Today I have the usual Mosque meeting in the morning. So I start to get dressed. Then my parents came in but all they said is “ no Mosque meeting today.”
So I got ready for school. When I got to school I was so happy to see my friend Mahadi. He was sick the past couple of days. Just then the teacher called us in. When we all got inside she told us that we had visitors. As soon as she said that we heard the car park and out jumped a load of people. They did not even come into our classroom. After that it was just a normal day so when I got home I jumped into bed and went to sleep.
Happyfield
Once upon
a time there was a very happy place. It
was called Happyfield. Everyone that
lived there was very happy and delightful all of the time. Some of the happiest people were the
President of Happyfield, Mr Happy-go-Lucky and his co-worker Steven. They were
very good co-workers and made Happyfield a very welcoming place. One day at the electricity company one of
the pipes burst! Because of that the building caught on fire. Thankfully one of the workers found a fire
extinguisher and put out the fire. There
was still a lot of the building but the main problem was how many people were
in the building. One of the workers went into the building to see if everyone was OK and some of the people were
alright. But they found the President
injured! The workers called the ambulance and wheeled him on a wheeling bed and
put him in the truck. “I hope he is going
to be OK,” said one of the workers.
“Same here,” said another worker.
The President woke up. He sat up and saw a bandage on his arm. As the doctor walked in with another bandage,
he saw the President sitting up. He was
so shocked he dropped the bandage in surprise.
“HE’S ALIVE!” yelled the doctor.
“HE WHAT!” screamed the nurse.
“HE IS ALIVE”! screamed the nurse.
They lived happily ever after.
THE END
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Words and pictures
This post features drawings by Eritrean refugee children from Aaidun and Nidal Elementary in Kassala, South East Sudan, with accompanying stories written by children of Flemington Primary School, Melbourne Australia.
The aim of this project is to stimulate links between students from the schools, and through the sharing of the pictures and stories to develop a deeper understanding of each other’s culture, beliefs and living conditions.
The project has grown out of the gift of art work produced by Eritrean refugee children in Aaidun and Nidal Elementary and brought to Melbourne by Mr Anwar Alishek from the Eritrean Australian Humanitarian Aid (EAHA), a Melbourne Rotarian supporting Eritrean refugees in Sudan.
Some of the drawings and accompanying stories were exhibited at Gallery Sunshine Everywhere in 2015. http://www.gallerysunshine.com/2015_Exhibitions/Pages/14_Jun_2015.html#grid
This is a joint project of Gallery Sunshine Everywhere, College of Education, Victoria University and the Eritrean Australian Humanitarian Association, facilitated by Sarah Tartakover, Maureen Ryan and Anwar Alishek.
This project was supported by the Victorian Multicultural Commission and will continue into 2016 with support from Brimbank City Council.
There is a pdf of the first book printed in this series available for download: https://app.box.com/s/pb2p9cmsjn520z10ebct71cwaf244m8m
Book layout and web design by Debbie Qadri
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