Bright Colour: Samantha Robison

Samantha Robison: ZAATARI, Jordan Young Syrian children, refugees of their countrys grinding civil war, playfully grab paint brushes and rollers nearly as big as they are in this windswept desert camp, adding splashes of bright colour to their bleak surroundings, according to The Chronicle Herald. So many children are bored in Zaatari. They just throw rocks because they have nothing else to do, artist Samantha Robison said. Theres a lot of violent tendencies and negative energy, so if you bring in art and give them a positive activity, it helps a lot and Most of the trailers and tents match the beige colour of the swirling sand surrounding the Zaatari refugee camp, home to about 120,000 Syrians who fled the nearly three-year war still gripping the nation. Slowly though, thats changing with the help of a U.S. artist who is leading children haunted by the conflict to paint buildings and walls at the crowded camp with murals expressing their lives and hopes. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.