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We are so grateful for the opportunity to have hosted the WE ARE OCEAN Tanzania project and workshop at Mwongozo primary school this Wed 24th September, at Kinondoni Mkwanjuni, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania 🇹🇿.
We commissioned the inspiring Tanzanian 🇹🇿 artist Arafa Hamadi to host the session, who brought two colleagues, who are local creatives and dancers from the city of Dar Es Salaam, to assist. We gladly welcomed 40, highly creative, engaged, and enthusiastic children between the ages of 6-8, where we co-created coral reef themed artworks together.
While educating participants on the theme of coral reefs, what is at stake when they are damaged, and what needs to be done to restore them, we collectively brain-stormed ways to protect and preserve healthy Tanzanian corals 🪸.
We worked with natural materials - plywood, natural sponge, locally collected and recycled materials - to co-create 40 miniature coral reefs, which will go on to be exhibited at local schools to extend the impact of the project, and raise awareness for the importance of ocean protection.
While the delegates from the Africa Blue Food Festival planted seaweed and installed beehives on the Tanzanian coast, ARTPORT focused efforts on this fantastic opportunity to encourage, teach, and craft solutions with the young participants - and in turn, to learn from them!
Key takeaways from the activity are how youth has real power to shape civil society, spark positive change, realise their own agency, and can be empowered to take real, effective action to better our society and protect our shared environment 🌊.
And of course, a huge thanks to our funders the Lighthouse Foundation for making this all possible.
Stay tuned for more!
WE ARE OCEAN_Tanzania project and workshop hosted by artist Arafa Hamadi at Mwongozo primary school, Kinondoni Mkwanjuni, Dar Es Salaam.

WE ARE OCEAN_Tanzania project and workshop hosted by artist Arafa Hamadi at Mwongozo primary school, Kinondoni Mkwanjuni, Dar Es Salaam.




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