The impact of children's work in a plastic art exhibition at the National Museum in Damascus

Damascus-SANA

The National Museum in Damascus has hosted more than 50 oil paintings that differed in their art schools and agreed on their theme, which is the impact of the phenomenon of children's work on their childhood and dreams.

The exhibition, in which 30 male and female artists participated, and continues until tomorrow, came as a conclusion to the event (Supporting Children's Rights through Education, Art and Media), which was launched by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor, the International Labor Organizations and (UNICEF) last week on the occasion of the World Day Against Child Labour.

Plastic artist Adnan Qassem explained to SANA that he participated in six paintings in which he expressed through the realistic school the reality of these children and touched their sorrows imposed by the bad economic reality of their families and the conditions of war that increased their suffering.

While the artist Nour Arar and the two artists Reem Al-Adawi and Rana Taha presented various visual messages through various paintings from the two schools of impressionism and abstraction that showed, through the contrast of colors, images of the reality of children who were forced by circumstances to work and deprived them of their rights and the image they should be in, emphasizing the role of plastic art alongside The media convey the reality of these children and simulate the concerns of society.

In a press statement, the Assistant Minister of Social Affairs and Labor, Dr. Wael Badin, considered that the event in general and the exhibition in particular are a form of art’s contribution to serving community issues, and the paintings express a deep understanding of the phenomenon of child labor and highlight it to open windows of hope to combat it through joint efforts to create a better future for them.

Badin pointed out that two years ago, the ministry launched the national plan to combat the worst forms of child labor in coordination with a number of concerned authorities, in addition to a cooperation program in the same field with the International Labor Organization with the aim of identifying the reality of the phenomenon of child labor and working on charting paths to return to their normal conditions, noting that The draft Child Rights Law is witnessing the final stages of debate in the People's Assembly and will be a broad umbrella for the promotion and protection of children's rights to be added to the social protection system and the strengthening of controls to ensure the development of the child in a healthy environment.

The event started last Friday through artistic, educational and recreational activities in which 150 children participated in Al-Sobki Park in Damascus and a plastic art forum in which a number of students and graduates of the Adham Ismail Institute participated.

The World Day Against Child Labor, which falls on June 12, focuses on paying attention to the causes and factors of the spread of child labor in the world and working to make the necessary efforts to eliminate the phenomenon by 2030.

Inas Alsvan