Travelling Fellowship for my project: Crafting Humanitarianism
From the early 20th century children have been participating in large-scale humanitarian projects, actively contributing to the transnational construction of humanitarianism through their productive and creative work. Whether through organisations like the Junior Red Cross, or projects such as the Goodwill Message of the Children of Wales, children’s art, craft, words, and deeds have produced and sustained visions of humanity, peace and global friendship. By following the global circulations of child-made things, Crafting Humanitarianism documents a children’s history of humanitarian that moves beyond seeing children as simply abject victims in need of rescue, or symbolic fonts of humanitarian sentiment.