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Children of Darfur Exhibit at the MLK Library
Type Africa Action event
Start Date March 1, 2009
End Date April 29, 2009
Website www.dclibrary.org
Location Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
901 G St NW # 400
Washington, DC 20001
Children are the youngest survivors of the genocide in Darfur, and their drawings depict the atrocities that they face. Dr. Jerry Ehrlich, a pediatrician from New Jersey, collected drawings from children in Darfur while he was working in one of the camps for internally displaced people. Africa Action has converted these drawings into an exhibit to help remind people of the on-going genocide in Darfur.
“I spent 2 months during the summer of 2004 as a volunteer for Doctors Without Borders caring for children in a medical center at a camp for internally displaced persons in Darfur, Sudan. I wanted to document the plight of the people through the eyes of children. I brought with me 25 boxes of crayons and about 400 pieces of drawing paper. They were given out to children between the ages 8 and 12. I asked them to draw about their lives in Darfur and return 7-8 drawings for me to take home as a remembrance. As the children brought back the drawings they were placed in my daypack under my medical instruments. At the end of the day they were hidden in a Sunday edition of The New York Times that I brought with me. That's how I was able to get them out of the country. As you view the drawings their message is obvious. They depict the atrocities these children have gone through and still unfortunately live with.” ~Dr. Jerry Ehrlich
The exhibit is made up of eight children’s drawings in 24”x36” format and an introductory piece of the same size that explains the exhibit and invites people to Just L.E.A.D.
The exhibit is currently at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
If you would like to host the exhibit feel free to contact us at outreach
africaaction.org and we will do our best to add you to the schedule. http://www.africaaction.org/events/index.php?op=view&eventid=1789