Syrian children, so they tell the indelible signs of their fleeing to Italy

With five hundred drawings Syrian children refugees in Italy tell about war trauma. That’s “Indelible signs. The Syrian children draw their escape”, a multimedia project signed by Save the Children that from July 2014 to January 2015  has collected the drawings made by these children in Milan. The result: the figures of boats on the open sea, faces with big and terrified eyes, weapons bloodstained but also yellow suns, symbol of hope and desire for normality. The drawings were organized into five sections – war, travel, experiential contexts, human figures, symbols – and analyzed according to the methodology of Koppitz (1984), with the use of 30 indicators to describe the emotional elements in designs that are more or less typical in children.