About the Children

Same Difference achievements to date

• Since March 07 the touring exhibition has been shown in 28 UK locations including libraries, galleries, shopping centres and the UK Department for International Development and York Minster;
• 200,000 people have actively engaged with the Same Difference exhibition by interacting with the artwork or a member of staff;
• 4,845 children have participated in Same Difference workshops the UK, Burkina Faso, Palestine, Bolivia, Mali and Brazil, many of whom had never had the experience of making anything creative before;
• 569 teachers, parents, carers and youth workers have been trained to creatively promote confidence building and self esteem for many more vulnerable children;
• 2700 children from 51 UK schools have participated in art workshops
  including:
  - 400 pupils from Windmill Primary School and Low Road Primary School in Leeds took part in Same Difference workshops during a Global Week
  in February 2008 (most of whom later wrote letters to the President of Brazil about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest) More...
  - 105 able and disabled children and young adults from the Cheshire region at the first Same Difference Global Arts Week event in August 2008. More...
  - 100 children at the The Royal Institution of Great Britain as part of The Big Draw.
  - 194 Year Seven pupils from Millthorpe School, in York took part in an African Arts Day in January 2009.
• Same Difference has been accepted by the Human Rights Education Associates for inclusion in the compendium of good practices in human rights education in the school system.
• The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) used a Same Difference case study in a keynote speech at the British Council Annual
  Conference in London in November 2007. View case study here...

Figures as 02/02/09

Students at a Same Difference disability art workshop, Burj Al Laqlaq, Palestine: Ross Georgeson

Same Difference art workshop, Fundacion Nueva Dia, Bolivia, 2006: Tom Weller

Same Difference Art workshop for teachers in Mali, 2005:
Ross Georgeson