DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Oct. 27, 2012) – Capturing both still-life and real images, around 30 children of overseas Filipino workers will put up a their first ever art exhibit which mirrors their portrayal of families detached due to the harsh realities of parents working abroad.
With the theme “Unveiling Stories through Angles and Strokes,” the children’s artworks are borne from the Communicators Development Training and Mentoring organized by the local nongovernmental organization called Mindanao Migrants Center for Empowering Actions, Inc. which promotes welfare of migrant workers as well as their families.
In partnership with other institutions, MMCEAI taps the role of children of OFWs in shaping local policies and initiatives that aim to strengthen families of Filipinos working abroad.
Inorisa Elento, MMCEAI executive director, said the exhibit culminates the training held sometime in September for school-based OFW children. “Our program called Building Capacities and Creating Opportunities for ANAK OFWs employs undertakings that provide avenues for children of migrants to ventilate their voices and aspirations by enhancing their skills through their various crafts in arts,” Elento said.
Elento said the exhibit will run starting on Oct. 29 at the Davao Episcopal Mission Center in Royal Pines in Matina. Most of the artworks, she said, are the products of children enrolled in different schools in Davao City which MMCEAI has institutional partnership programs.
Some 29 school-based “ANAK OFWs” from Davao City participated and completed the training through the following art disciplines – visual arts, photography, radio broadcasting and writing. (Gandhi Kinjiyo)
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