Homs-Sana
With drawing, poetry, playing and singing, the talents of children and youth met on the platform of the Cultural Center in Homs in a festival held by the Al-Yamamah Literary and Cultural Forum in cooperation with the Al-Rabeeh Association for the Care of People with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
The festival opened with an exhibition of drawings by seven young people and children from the Yamamah Forum and the Spring Gifted Drawing Association.
The talented young woman Anfal Al-Hayo participated in two paintings, the first about the Arabian horse and its originality, the second for the Unknown Soldier Monument, which expresses the greatness of martyrdom, while the seventeen-year-old Mohammed Nour Batman participated in two paintings in charcoal colors and the child Lara Al-Mousa with a painting in which she painted a scene of the picturesque nature.
Then the festival began with a poem by the children's poet Burhan Al-Shalil in which he valued the efforts made by the Spring Society to promote patients with autism spectrum, pay attention to their abilities, develop their talents and care for them in health and education, while young poets Abdul Rahman Donia, Salami Aqeel, Ahmed Diab and Abdul Ghani Aqeel delivered a bouquet of sentimental and flirtatious poems.
On the strings of the violin and guitar, the two talented young sisters, Sama and Sarah Al-Abd Al-Rajab, played the melody of the Syrian Arab anthem and the song "Nasm Al-Hawa".
Raed Tahhan, Technical Director of the Al-Rabeeh Society and specialist in autism, gave an educational health lecture in which he explained the scientific reasons for the emergence of autism spectrum disease in children and pointed out that among children with the disease are large numbers of talented people in various fields.
For her part, Aya Fati, supervisor of the Homs pavilion of the Sweida-based Al-Yamamah Forum, explained in a statement to SANA that the forum brings together hundreds of talented young people in the field of poetry, drawing and music with the aim of developing and supporting their talents to reach a generation of creators.
In turn, the director of the cultural center in Homs, Wafa Younis, noted the importance of the festival, which embraced the talents of autistic patients with their peers.
Ali Al-Naqri, the media supervisor of Al-Yamamah Forum, pointed out that the forum, which brings together hundreds of talented people from different governorates, is keen to hold continuous literary and cultural festivals to introduce these creators.
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