Elham Ahmed is a Program Coordinator for Mercy Corps Iraq.
Location:
Khanaqin-Kalar, Iraq-KRG
I am passionate about the following issues:
Youth, women and gender, PWDs, children and protection
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Iraq April 27, 2011 6:14AM
Arazu's dream
Elham Ahmed
Program Coordinator, Iraq
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Arazu Hassan Salih. Photo: Elham Ahmed/Mercy Corps
One of the participants in the Mercy Corps Iraq-sponsored Creating Murals For Kalar Kindergarten project — in which art students paint murals on local school walls — is 22-year-old Arazu Hassan Salih. Arazu studies at Kalar's Kifri Fine Arts Institution, where she enjoys painting much more than any thing else. She loves it so much that she dreams of being a painter for her lifelong career.
Her fellow students, as well as her teachers, bear witness to this dream. Despite suffering from a partial disability — she walks with considerable difficulty and has a minor speech impediment — Arazu often adds to the workload of her studies by participating in local events and gallery shows. As a result of that desire to get her art out into the community more, she was excited to join the Mercy Corps project — and we were pleased to welcome her!