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Art is a comfort for these displaced Lebanese kids



<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/4000×2668+0+0/resize/4000×2668!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fcd%2Fbf%2Fb6dcd7c84c1781384feba12246cf%2Flbn-idps-art-diegoibarrasanchez-npr-014.jpg' alt='Sara Miliji, 12, from the border village of Naqoura, participates in an art class at a renovated movie theatre in the city of Tyre. Sara's family fled when their village was bombed. They now live along with hundreds of other families in a schoolroom turned into a shelter.
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Displaced by current airstrikes and past conflicts, children board a brightly painted bus to attend art classes that aim to make them feel like kids again — and give them a way to express their pain.

(Image credit: Diego Ibarra Sánchez for NPR)



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