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✨ Daily update from Nada – Art from Rubble 🎨🏚
✨ Daily update from Nada – Art from Rubble 🎨🏚

Today’s session marked Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, where children used recycled materials to express powerful stories and realities through art.

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Nick Bilbrough19 April 2026Comment
✨ Daily update from Nada – Art from Rubble πŸŽ¨β™»οΈ
✨ Daily update from Nada – Art from Rubble πŸŽ¨β™»οΈ

β€œAll broken things can be repaired, yet they carry a scar forever.” 🌈πŸͺ‘

In our first recycling session, children transformed fragments from the rubble into beautiful flowers β€” turning broken pieces into moments of creativity and calm. 🏚🌸

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Nick Bilbrough7 April 2026Comment
✨ Daily update from Nada – Art from Rubble πŸŽ¨πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ
✨ Daily update from Nada – Art from Rubble πŸŽ¨πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ

On the occasion of Palestinian Land Day, Nada created her painting β€œLady of the Land” alongside her students β€” the true heroes of this land. 🏚❀️

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Nick Bilbrough31 March 2026Comment
✨ Daily update from Nada – Art from Rubble 🎨🏚
✨ Daily update from Nada – Art from Rubble 🎨🏚

β€œTravelers on a Distant Journey” πŸͺ„πŸŽ­βœˆοΈ

In one of our sessions in Gaza, children found a suitcase beneath the rubble and turned it into a world of imagination β€” playing, performing, and creating their own stories among the ruins.

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Nick Bilbrough18 March 2026Comment
✨ Daily update from Nada – Art from Rubble 🎨
✨ Daily update from Nada – Art from Rubble 🎨

Innocent faces, peaceful eyes, and laughter that could heal an entire day. πŸ₯Ήβ€οΈβ€πŸ”₯

This marked the final session at Al-Manara Modern School, part of the Art from Rubble project supported by The Hands Up Project β€” a beautiful ending filled with warmth, creativity, and hope. πŸ’›βœ¨

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Nick Bilbrough18 March 2026Comment
✨ Daily Update from Nada – Art from Rubble 🎨🏚
✨ Daily Update from Nada – Art from Rubble 🎨🏚

Driven by her deep belief in transforming pain into hope, Nada continues her work through the Art from Rubble project under the theme β€œNew Hope.”

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Nick Bilbrough5 March 2026 Comment
✨ Daily Update from Nada – Art From Rubble πŸŽ¨πŸ’«
✨ Daily Update from Nada – Art From Rubble πŸŽ¨πŸ’«

Because we believe that barriers do not cancel participation, and distance does not stop creativity, Art From Rubblecontinues to bring hearts together across the world. 🌍❀️

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Nick Bilbrough23 February 2026Comment
✨ Daily update from Nada – Art From Rubble πŸŽ¨πŸ’”
✨ Daily update from Nada – Art From Rubble πŸŽ¨πŸ’”

As part of the Art From Rubble project, Nada Rajab led a special Ramadan session with children in Gaza’s Old Town. Originally planned at the historic Great Omari Mosque, the activity was moved due to structural damage after repeated strikes in 2023.

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Nick Bilbrough21 February 2026Comment
Daily update from Nada | Art from Rubble 🎨🏚️
Daily update from Nada | Art from Rubble 🎨🏚️

I believe art isn’t limited to colors alone.

Through Art from Rubble, I held a warm, love-filled therapeutic session with my creative students, aged 7–18 πŸ‘©β€πŸŽ¨πŸ§‘β€πŸŽ¨

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Nick Bilbrough9 February 2026Comment
Daily update from Nada | Art from Rubble
Daily update from Nada | Art from Rubble

Because the souls we lost to the war must never be forgotten.
Today’s activity in the Art from Rubble project carried the title:

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Nick Bilbrough26 January 2026Comment
Daily Update | Art from Rubble – Nada Rajab
Daily Update | Art from Rubble – Nada Rajab

As part of my project β€œArt from Rubble” πŸšπŸ–Œ, I retrieved pieces of curtain fabric from beneath the rubble, carefully cleaned them, and transformed them into a canvas for painting.

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Nick Bilbrough8 January 2026Comment
Daily Update | Art from Rubble – by Nada 🏚️🎨
Daily Update | Art from Rubble – by Nada 🏚️🎨

With deep faith that art knows no borders, I carried out a New Year greeting activity in a creative and hopeful wayβ€”despite all distances and barriers.

The activity reached children in more than five different locations, across tens of kilometers, and even in other countries thousands of kilometers away.

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Nick Bilbrough28 December 2025Comment
🎨 Daily Update from Nada | Art from Rubble πŸ’•πŸŽ„
🎨 Daily Update from Nada | Art from Rubble πŸ’•πŸŽ„

Believing that art is a language of peace, love, and survival, Nada led a very special art session through the Art from Rubble project inside the Latin Church in Gaza City, sharing Christmas joy with Christian children in a creative, hopeful space.

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Nick Bilbrough25 December 2025Comment
Art from Rubble | Daily Update β€” Nada
Art from Rubble | Daily Update β€” Nada

Because I deeply believe in the power of art as a tool for healing and resilience, today’s Art from Rubble session was different. This time, the activities were not with children, but with the Civil Defense personnel in the Gaza Strip.

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Nick Bilbrough19 December 2025Comment
🏚🎨 Daily Update β€” Art from Rubble
🏚🎨 Daily Update β€” Art from Rubble

After being displaced again from south to north Gaza, I began the first touches of my Art from Rubble project in the Gaza Seaport β€” now surrounded by rubble and tents.

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Nick Bilbrough3 December 2025Comment
Daily Update β€” Art from Rubble
Daily Update β€” Art from Rubble

Today was my final meeting with the wonderful teacher Sahar and her incredible students in southern Gaza before returning north. Over three hours of creativity, healing, and connection.

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Nick Bilbrough25 November 2025Comment
Daily Update β€” Art From the Rubble 🎨🏚🌿
Daily Update β€” Art From the Rubble 🎨🏚🌿

Because I believe that education is the foundation of growth, I’ve spent the past two weeks searching for someone who could teach my students the beautiful and powerful art of sculpture.

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Nick Bilbrough24 November 2025 Comment
✨ Daily Update from Nada – Art from the Rubble ✨
✨ Daily Update from Nada – Art from the Rubble ✨

Because I believe in the power of art in all its forms β€” and in the profound impact it has on my students β€” today we created a beautiful blend of artistic expressions with my talented group and a new circle of children.

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Nick Bilbrough17 November 2025Comment
Daily Update from Nada β€” Art from the Rubble 🎨🏚✨
Daily Update from Nada β€” Art from the Rubble 🎨🏚✨

And it didn’t stop there…

Because I believe the power of art lives within every child, today I welcomed a new group of lovely children to join my talented students.

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Nick Bilbrough15 November 2025Comment
🎨 Daily update from Nada β€” Art from the Rubble
🎨 Daily update from Nada β€” Art from the Rubble

Because art is the only companion for children amid the ruins, today’s activity was titled β€œSouls We Miss.”

Many of my students have faced deep loss β€” some lost their families, others a sibling. Yet, through their art, they found a moment of light, hope, and healing.

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Nick Bilbrough12 November 2025Comment
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