JHCO exhibition celebrates talents of Jordanian, refugee children

AMMAN — A new art exhibition centred around Jordanian and refugee children, organised by the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organisation (JHCO), opened on Wednesday with the aim of teaching families about productivity and model citizenship.

Deputising for HRH Prince Hassan, HRH Princess Rahma inaugurated the First Tarabot Art Exhibition, which showcases pictures and paintings by Jordanian and refugee children from the Tarabot Community Centre.

The Tarabot Community Centre, one of the JHCO projects, provides workshops and interactive educational activities for Arabic, math, computer skills, English, fitness, science fiction, puppet making, science experiments and professional photography, in addition to recycling. 

The exhibition showcases over 100 pieces of art at the NOFA Creative Space in Amman, with the aim of displaying the children's talents as well as donating the revenues from the exhibition to support the education of refugee and local community children.

The 12 collections showcased in the exhibition, which concludes on Thursday at 7pm, include the “Hope” collection, created by children of  different nationalities from Al Amal Jordanian School in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was established by the JHCO in 1997.

The exhibition also includes Bonraku (traditional Japanese style puppets), a paper mache sculpture, the “dreams of a Syrian refugee in the Tarabot community”, and an impressionist collection, according to a statement from the organisers.

During the opening, JHCO Assistant Secretary General Mohammad Kilani highlighted the organisation's focus on implementing projects and programmes that help enable families, especially women and children, to learn the concepts of model citizenship and productivity at a young age. He noted that the exhibition is one of the many ways to achieve this goal, according to the statement. 

Kilani also thanked all officials and individuals who supported holding the exhibition, commending the centre and most importantly, the children.