You Tube Portuguese students facing COVID – 19 worked for the 7th Edition of Kid's Guernica Project
The Association of Municipalities of the
Setúbal Region - AMRS, enthusiastically embraced the project Kid's Guernica,
due to its historical, humanist and artistic relevance. AMRS it’s an
association that works the interests of its associated municipalities, located
in Setúbal – Portugal.
In 2005, first launched the challenge to
all schools from Setúbal and, so then, all of its students would be able to
work around this project.
Due to world’s pandemic COVID-19 and the
scenario the public health community fear right now, people all around the
world are watching a deadly virus emerging spreading rapidly. 2020 saw the world united against this virus,
from small personal gestures to protect others, to international collaboration
on research and innovation.
Public and private organisms have their
stories about how they rearranged their methodic work, facing limitations.
The relation between AMRS, their
municipalities and schools, brought an individual e collective vision in order
to maintain this Project. Gratefully, we've found the answer suitable to
achieve the right response and it was with effort and pleasure that we built it
with them.
The most challenging crisis we have ever
faced also brought us the capacity, resilience, commitment and the tools needed
to beat COVID-19 limitations. We’ve became more aware of the best practices
during this pandemic, respecting the "stay home" measures, the closure
of schools, businesses, and public places. The outcome of the Covid-19 pandemic
was impossible to predict, but we didn´t stopped.
The 7th Edition of the Kid’s Guernica
Project, who brought together over 5250 students to work the theme
Participation as a tool for Peace and Equality, was interrupted, due to the
circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic.
This theme was based on the importance of
Participation and the fundamental role of children in society, through their
ability to reflect about the act of Participating, taking part, intervening,
sharing, denouncing, so it is a way to defend and promote Peace and Equality.
Schools and students, with our support,
developed this work, facing gigantic limitations. In their behalf, AMRS and the
municipalities of the Setúbal Region developed this video to signalize the 7th
edition.
A Secretária-Geral
Sofia Martins
AMRS
