400 primary school children from Venice will meet tomorrow at the Passenger Terminal of the Harbour Station for the "Venezia Istanbul Disegni a quattro mani" project. Promoted by "Venezia pesce di pace", now in its fifteenth year, the initiative this year is about "the port I’d like", and it is precisely a port that the children will have to draw, "but just one half of it explains Nadia De Lazzari, director of the project, to SIR -. The children will be given a sheet of paper folded into two; the other side is for a distant friend who will complete the drawing. Together, through coloured pictures and reflections, they will give rise to a joint project". The initiative, goes on De Lazzari, "is the continuation of an educational and real solidarity project created in 1992 during the fresh outbreak of the war in the former Yugoslavian countries, especially Sarajevo. Then, the same method was implemented in Kinshasa, Jerusalem, Islamabad, Ulan Bator, Beirut, and now, on the suggestion of the Dominican Fathers, in Istanbul", where the director will go on November 26th to open the second part of the project in the local participating schools. "The earlier a child’s experience of internationality she concludes , the less room for prejudices".
