Kids' Guernica World Peace Painting Project

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Kids’ Guernica 2013 World Peace Mural Workshop Joint Project of Rotary Club of Mumbai Goregaon West, Pres Sudhir Koppikar, Rotary Club of Mumbai Shivaji Park, Pres Satish Hattiangadi & Lions Club of Shivaji Park, Pres Sushmita Chowdhury Rtn Banibrata Podder, Dist AT & Coordinator His dream was to come true in just few days. His preparation for the same for over three years, with preliminary talks with the artists who had created paper murals from the blind children of Kolkota was to materialize. Making the administrators of the Institutions understand the importance of this peace movement Kids’ Guernica and getting their permission to let their wards outside their schools to this 7 day workshop in itself was a herculean task. In this regard, Lion PDG Shirish Jhaveri only could help us get the permission from Happy Home. Once he was convinced about the uniqueness of the project and the boundless happiness that children would get after completion of this extra-ordinary feat, he was fully supporting for all the preparatory meetings. On 4th Morning the children had the first feel of canvas and understanding of the size-vastness compared to the usual paper they paint as well how the artists have visualized their concept of world peace and what will be their task in depicting their concept in the alphabet assigned to them. Their unity, bonding and natural support while working team did allay our fears whether the 7 days would be sufficient for this project. The task was to impress our members to visit the venue and extend help as volunteers for the small errands of giving paint to the children, distributing food items to them time to time. We were hoping that we would be needing extra help than to the mentally and physically challenged children we had to in 2005 at Punarvas, where because of the proximity of the venue we had very good turnout of Ranns

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