EAA’s exhibit has now moved to W Doha Hotel, where it will be held until May 30. EAA has invited the public to visit the exhibition.
With the hashtag #Togetherfor10million and #Itispossible, the event has been “successful in creating awareness about the barriers to education, such as poverty, conflict and natural disasters, which millions of children around the world face”, EAA has said in a statement.
The exhibition at Qatar Academy was spread across different zones: Conflict Zone, Zones of Peace, Tree Zone and School Zone.
In the Conflict Zone, guests were able to experience a war zone using visuals and sound effects. Afterwards, guest moved to the dark room where a neon art piece translated the word ‘education’ in Arabic to emphasise how education is the light in the darkness.
For EAA, ‘Knowledge is Light’, and last month EAA lit up major landmarks in Doha and New York to celebrate its achievement. The light installation was followed by a display of an art piece dedicated to EAA’s achievement of reaching 10mn out-of-school children around the world.
In the Tree Zone, guests were introduced to some of the challenges that refugees face, and given the opportunity to present solutions to educating hard-to-reach children who face those challenges.
In the School Zone, EAA portrayed the difference between a school in a well-developed country and a school in a poor country. Kids were given a chance to showcase their ideas by way of paintings and drawings to project as to how the how the future should look like.
Leena al-Derham, senior education specialist of the Educate A Child programme, said: “This exhibition marks yet another milestone of bringing together like-minded people to further emphasise the importance of educating out-of-school children. This was a unique opportunity to reflect our vision and mission and create a spark in youth to drive change. We believe that it is possible to provide access to quality education for all the world’s out-of-school children.”
