These Hands Will Demolish
Child Abuse.
Begin to see the right path. Begin to feel the wrath
of abuse. Not many understand, but what they know
will change the world. We need to fight.
Dorian, age 12
Put
yourself in someone's shoes that has been abused,
you would not like it. So help stop chiled abused.
STOP.
Ruby, age 10
The idea for a "Give Us a Hand" Visualization
HandPrints came out of a project with the children
at DAS school in Toronto.
In the spring of 1999, Project
sculptor, Michael C. Irving, Ph.D., was asked
to deliver a presentation and art program to DAS
(Downtown Alternative School) in Toronto. Teachers,
Mark Sprack and Jennifer Zurba brought together
the children of grades three to six.
IT'S
NOT YOUR FAULT!!
Speak Out.
Always have hope.
Don't be afraid.
Suicide is not the right answer.
It hurts your family as well as you.
Choose life, not death.
Respect children. Don't abuse
children. We have children to love children. Children
are our future. Peace/Ying-Yang
Casey, age 9
Why should child abuse happen?
We don't want it happening, no one does.
So... Don't do it.
Chris, age 11
I feel hurt.
Rosie, age 7
I've seen it
onece and I don't want to see it twice.
STOP CHILD ABUSE!
Physical injury
last a long time, but imotinail injurys last longer.
I wish for no more child abuse.
I wish for peace.
Aaron, age 9
I think if child abuse won't
stop; ware will not stop eaither, and there will be
no peace in the world.
Michelle, age 8
Our world does not deserve
this!
We don't want this!
STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW!
Child Abuse Does Not Work For Us! No more for our world, end
the pain and torture. Praise all the people, the people
who would dare, who dared to stop Child Abuse!
Aianna, age 10
To all those who have suffered
the pain of child abuse:
thank you
I'M Sorry.
What you did helped many others.
You have suffered so others wouldn"t.
You did not do anything to hurt.
Dale, age 11
Michael
talked about the monument design and the role of
art in telling stories and shaping the world. The
children led and directed the discussion that followed.
Some children brought up the incidences
of abuse at Maple Leaf Gardens. It was something
many children knew of and had thought about. There
was a lot of compassion expressed and insightful
discussion about how hard it is to tell someone,
but no matter what you have to keep telling till
someone listens. The tragedy and wrongfulness
Martin Kruze's suicide, as result of abuse, was
talked about by a few.
To share in the monument
experience a drawing exercise was done were children
drew an outline of their hands and wrote or drew
what they wanted on or around the hand.
Stop child abuse!
Child abuse is unethical, selfish, mean, bad.
Child abuse is disrespectful.
Child abuse is low!
Very low!!
Very very low!!!
Jeremy, age 10
We
shall overcome. We shall overcome. We shall overcome
child abuse. Deep in my heart I do belive we shall
overcome. We shall over come. Merrick, age 10
Child Abuse has claimed many souls and we want them
back.
Are you one of them.
Merrick, age 10
I feel very sory for the
people who were abused.
Morag, age 8
Please stop child abuse.
Ali, age 8
Don't do it.
Darius, age 12
It's
cruel
It's horrible
It's child abuse!
So stop it!
Child Abuse: You don't have to worry. It Stops Now.
Nikko, age 12
Child
abe will die like many of its victims.
Creative
Helpful
Innocent
Leaders
Delightful
Child abuse is wrong and
it's the worst thing you can do.
Nick, age 12
Keep the Peace in your....Home,
School, and in your HEART. Respectful, Wealthy, Health,
Love, Caring.
The children were articulate about
how feelings get hurt and the need to talk and
work things out. Ideas of peace making and to
identify conflicts and work to a mutually beneficial
solution were presented by some children.
The hurtfulness of school yard
bullying and how to deal with it shared and that
bullying with words and actions can be just as
hurtful as hitting, but may be harder to explain
and deal with.
I
love being alive. I think child abuse should
stop and stop NOW!!!
Kyla, age 8
Child abuse:
see the light, it will stop. We will make it. My father was abused and
I wasn't: the cycle stopped.
Child abuse affects people's
Mental and physical health.
Stop It.
Tarah, age 10
Abusers have no right in our
peaceful world. All children should have to be protected
from all ABUSE!
A number of children made the
analogy between "how kids are treated and
how they treat others".
A quilt wall was made of
the hands on a bulliten board in the main hallway
of the school. The parents and visitors remarked
about the poinientness and perceptiveness of the
hand print messages.
We have
to be careful how we express our feelings, because
sometimes it doesn't turn out how we wanted it to.
Aditi
I am not afraid of being abused.
Brannegan, age 9
The
HandPrint Wall of DAS (Downtown Alternative School)
We greatly appreciation
the contribution of the children from DAS.
Thank You!
If you abuse children, you're
abusing our FUTURE!
Franny, age 12
Children are important. We
must protect them!
Claire, age 9
It was very clear
to all --these powerful statements were worthy
of a larger presence. The idea of placing them
in the monument was born. The "Give Us A
Hand" campaign developed as another important
element of the "Reaching Out" Monument.
Abuse is very bad, we need
hope to stop it.
Parris, age 9
I see a time where child abuse
is taught in history and is history.
Christopher, age 9
Intimidation is not for us!
Savanna, age 12
A day when there is no child abuse will come.
Midori, age 10
To GIVE US A HAND for placement
inside The Canadian Millennium Child Abuse Memorial:
1. Draw an outline of your hand on a piece of
8 1/2 x 11 paper or the back of your printout;
2. On or around the outline of
your hand, write or draw your millennium message;
3. Send your personal hand print
to:
The Survivor Monument
Project
274 Rhodes Ave.
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M4L 3A3
or Fax:(416)922-8363
YOUR HAND PRINT
WILL BE PLACED INSIDE THE "REACHING OUT"
MONUMENT
I wish child abuse would
stop like war -- to Terrry and Tracy.
Odile, age 8
Some day it will stop.
Kio, age 12
If you wish to make
a donation along with your make your check out
to: The Survivor Monument Project.
Fax:(416)922-8363
