Missiles and Sewage

Missiles and Sewage

Art by Palestinian Youth, Facilitated by Maia Mural Bridage and Art Forces

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“Maia Mural Brigade” is a multi-media public-art project with artists, activists and youth from Palestine and around the world in Gaza, occupied Palestine. By partnering with on-the-ground activist organizations in Gaza including the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), MAIA Mural Brigade uses art to ignite concrete action for environmental justice. In 2011, the MAIA Mural Brigade collaborated with Estria Foundation’s #WaterWrites project and MECA. To date, 9 murals have been painted across Gaza. All but one are located at the sites of water purification and desalination systems being installed by the Middle East Children’s Alliance, providing clean water to more then 50,000 children. Photos, video and more information here.

The mural project was born of a collaboration between several US arts and activism organizations, including the Estria Foundation, the ORSMP, and the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) — which has been raising funds to employ local organizations in Gaza to build much-needed water purification and desalination systems for Palestinian schoolchildren via their Maia project (maia means “water” in Arabic). MECA says they have helped provide water systems to 14 large UN schools in Palestinian refugee camps and to 13 kindergartens in refugee camps, towns, and villages. Read more here.

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