This activity was held during 1st TTLA at Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão.

Portuguese students and TTLA guests were invited to join the Art teacher, Nana Cristina Esteves, for a morning of Paint Party fun! After a brainstorming activity to define what solidarity means and to share thoughts on the concept, participants were ready to start paint a mural of a Solidarity Tree, in our school. With laid out paints, students set about using their hands as stencils for the foliage of HIH solidarity tree, while having heaps of fun, all the while. This mural is a depiction of the many different ways to reach success through education, and if you take the time to look closely, you will see words synonymous to the word “solidarity” in English and in the guests’ native tongue, all over the tree. The goal was to paint a beautiful solidarity tree but also to create more social links through aesthetic tools.

Reach to your friends

Enter conversation for a while

Seek to understand the needy

Practice kindness; don't bne greedy

Each one of us should share with others

And care for them as if they were brothers

To create a world of fraternity and solidarity

(Poem inspired on the activity wrote by Portuguese students after a debriefing session on the project.)