1. Teacher Guidance: Be aware, there is content that some children may find disturbing.

2. Aim Success Criteria Challenge
I can learn from someone else’s memories.
Success Criteria
I can draw and talk about my own memories.
I can identify what someone else has drawn.
I can understand the background of someone else’s memory.
I can say how someone else’s memory makes me feel.
Challenge
I can think about how I could make a situation better even though I cannot change what has happened already.
I can think about how my learning might change how I behave.

3. What is Holocaust Memorial Day?
27th January each year is Holocaust Memorial Day. On this day, we remember events that have happened in the past, when people were treated badly. This is so that we can learn from them and make sure they don’t happen again.
We remember the Holocaust, Nazi persecution and terrible crimes committed during conflicts in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
Today, to mark Holocaust Memorial Day we are going to look at what has been happening to people in a place called Darfur.

4. What is Holocaust Memorial Day?
Bosnia
Cambodia
Darfur
Rwanda

5. What Are Your Memories?
Use the activity sheet to draw one of your strongest memories. Take time to include detail, and label your picture to make it as clear as possible.
Would you like to share your memory with a friend, teacher or the whole class?

6. What Have Other Children Drawn?
Do you think these children will draw the same type of things?
Soon you will see some pictures that children aged years old, living in Darfur, drew from their strongest memories.
Photo courtesy of UNAMID granted under creative commons licence

7. Where is Darfur?
What is your region/country? How far is Darfur from you?
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Darfur is a region of Sudan, which is a country in Africa.

8. What Was Happening in Darfur?
There has always been tension between different groups of people in Darfur, but in 1989 the new government wanted Sudan just for Arab people, and by 2003 there was serious conflict, killing thousands.
Can you think of any examples of tensions between groups of people?

9. Can you predict what the children from Darfur might have drawn?
Children’s Drawings
A UK organisation called ‘Waging Peace’, collected some drawings from Darfur children aged years.
Can you predict what the children from Darfur might have drawn?

10. Activity 1: Looking at Drawings
Look at the pictures that the children have drawn. Look at them carefully, and see if you can label what is happening.

11. Activity 1: Compare What You Saw
Feed back what you saw. Did you notice the same or different things?

12. Activity 1: The Story Behind the Picture
That picture was drawn by a young boy who was 10 when his village in Darfur was attacked in This is what you can see in his picture:
Government forces in pick-up trucks.
Government forces riding in to the village in horseback.
A plane is dropping bombs on the village, setting fire to the huts.
A soldier has shot someone in the leg.
A soldier is taking away three women.
Soldiers hiding in the trees are attacking men, women and children.
Helicopters and aeroplanes are attacking his village.
Men are being killed and thrown into the valley.

13. Activity 2: What Can You See in This Picture?
Q1: What is happening here?
Q2: How does it make you feel?
Q3: What does it make you think about?

14. Activity 2: The Story Behind the Picture
This boy was nine when his village in Darfur was attacked in 2003 by government forces. In his picture you can see:
Two women and a boy are fleeing an attack from soldiers in trucks and a tank.
Houses in the village are on fire.
The soldiers are shooting at the women and children, and the boy is hit in the leg.

15. What Happened to the Boys Who Drew the Pictures?
The boys who drew these pictures had to run away from their homes and their villages because they were in danger.
They now live in other countries because in Sudan the government and other people are still attacking villages.
When people have to leave their homes to escape from danger, they are called refugees.

16. Learn about what is happening.
What is Darfur Like Now?
For the past 13 years in Darfur, some people have been under attack from the government and other people who don’t want them there.
They haven’t done anything wrong – other people want the land that they live on. They want to give it to people who are from an Arab background rather than a black African background.
Millions of vulnerable people are still without food, water and medicine – leaving the population at risk of starvation and disease.
And it’s not just in Darfur. More than a quarter of a million people have been forced to flee the area to South Sudan and Ethiopia.
Learn about what is happening.
Spread the word.
What can we do to help?