When your Caritas group has staged its creative event, share it with us. Tell us how you engaged creatively with migrants, refugees and the wider community and show off your art.
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In the Kawangware district of Nairobi, Rwandan refugee Dieudonne can now use his artistic talents to provide for his young family.
He makes gift bags and cards and screen prints his own artwork after learning skills on a Caritas Kenya project focused on using creativity entrepreneurially.
Dieudonne says producing cards for his church helped him get to know people and to be accepted. “I am glad to share messages of goodness using my art,” he says.
Caritas in northern Italy helped migrants express the suffering of their journeys through drama.
Caritas in Greece has embraced both painting and photography as ways for migrants and refugees to communicate and bring colour to their lives.
