Help Syrian Refugee Karmel's dream!
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After a traumatizing journey from the war-battered Syria, Karmel is one of the lucky ones who safely settled in Germany. A refugee since he was 22, he is now finally ready to start again a new life. He is looking forward to enrolling in the academy for communication design and needs your help!
Germany has been many things. First a temporary deviation on the route, then a refugee camp. Eventually, a new life opportunity shaped more like an egg box than a piece of paper, full of the most colourful surprises, adventure trips and the chance to be reunited with my family. Part of it made it safely to Europe.
Since 2015 Germany is my new home.
//Karmel Zarzar at the presentation of the movie Taste of Cement in Brussells in 2019 to meet the director Ziad Kalthoum
I am Karmel Zarzar, 27 years old Palestinian-Syrian refugee. I am a graphic designer who lost his emotional stability on the way and fought as hard as possible to gain it back. I succeeded and I am now here to tell my story in a nutshell.
//My cat loves to have a walk in the sun
Every journey has ups and downs, changes and trains lost, projects going on and passions exploded. But I just couldn’t get myself to see the brightness of the future under the war, I started to deal with fear and depression back in Syria. Anxiety and nightmares hunted me during the trip away from home, away from my family, away from the war. It’s hard to talk about it, it’s complicated to live with it.
// Travel tokens collected on the road to becoming a refugee in Germany, by Karmel Zarar
I was lost across the Mediterranean sea and alone on European trains that brought me to Germany, looking for my siblings.
Now I am here, safe, gratefull. But my hands are heavy with my emotional luggage and I can’t keep them steady. I shape and photograph and paint, on paper, on wood, in shows, on my laptop that came with me along from Syria. My art can’t but express the Syrian disaster and the roller coaster of emotions that hits me when I have to build a new life far away from home, far away from my parents and loved ones.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/75188093/A-dream-of-nothingness // A dream of nothingness, by Karmel Zarzar
Now I need a piece of paper. I need a diploma from the academy for Communication Design to get my talent and emotions on the market and for this, I need your help.
I will enrol in September in the HTK Academy in Hamburg, as I currently live in a small city close by, for the curriculum of Kommunikationsdesign (Communication Design). I will attend classes on a half-day schedule, so I can keep working, but my income will be half of what is now. Even by saving and taking night shifts to pay the rent, the bills, the public transports and the school materials (books and tools), not mentioning the small support I manage to send home to my family in Syria, I will still need your help to afford the school fee of circa 500€ per month.
The goal is set to 5500€ which amounts to what should be paid in fee for just the first of the three years of the academy, counting to gain more money on the way by working even harder.
Before you guess, I am already working several jobs at the same time: as English, German and Arabic teacher, as a contributor to several opportunities in the digital art system, as service in restaurants full time and as a seller in a shop as a mini job.
//Tribute to Radiohead, by Karmel Zarzar
I will be grateful for every donation that will help me get closer to my goal and support the future of a Syrian refugee.
Please write to me here or contact me on my social networks if you want to get in touch with me.
Karmel Zarzar
More about me and my art:
My portfolio https://www.behance.net/KarmelZarzar
My art facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Artist/Karmel-Zarzar-Photo-Compositing-1515447202012142/
My interview with Unesco https://mgiep.unesco.org/article/a-meeting-of-minds
Germany has been many things. First a temporary deviation on the route, then a refugee camp. Eventually, a new life opportunity shaped more like an egg box than a piece of paper, full of the most colourful surprises, adventure trips and the chance to be reunited with my family. Part of it made it safely to Europe.
Since 2015 Germany is my new home.
//Karmel Zarzar at the presentation of the movie Taste of Cement in Brussells in 2019 to meet the director Ziad KalthoumI am Karmel Zarzar, 27 years old Palestinian-Syrian refugee. I am a graphic designer who lost his emotional stability on the way and fought as hard as possible to gain it back. I succeeded and I am now here to tell my story in a nutshell.
//My cat loves to have a walk in the sunEvery journey has ups and downs, changes and trains lost, projects going on and passions exploded. But I just couldn’t get myself to see the brightness of the future under the war, I started to deal with fear and depression back in Syria. Anxiety and nightmares hunted me during the trip away from home, away from my family, away from the war. It’s hard to talk about it, it’s complicated to live with it.
// Travel tokens collected on the road to becoming a refugee in Germany, by Karmel ZararI was lost across the Mediterranean sea and alone on European trains that brought me to Germany, looking for my siblings.
Now I am here, safe, gratefull. But my hands are heavy with my emotional luggage and I can’t keep them steady. I shape and photograph and paint, on paper, on wood, in shows, on my laptop that came with me along from Syria. My art can’t but express the Syrian disaster and the roller coaster of emotions that hits me when I have to build a new life far away from home, far away from my parents and loved ones.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/75188093/A-dream-of-nothingness // A dream of nothingness, by Karmel ZarzarNow I need a piece of paper. I need a diploma from the academy for Communication Design to get my talent and emotions on the market and for this, I need your help.
I will enrol in September in the HTK Academy in Hamburg, as I currently live in a small city close by, for the curriculum of Kommunikationsdesign (Communication Design). I will attend classes on a half-day schedule, so I can keep working, but my income will be half of what is now. Even by saving and taking night shifts to pay the rent, the bills, the public transports and the school materials (books and tools), not mentioning the small support I manage to send home to my family in Syria, I will still need your help to afford the school fee of circa 500€ per month.
The goal is set to 5500€ which amounts to what should be paid in fee for just the first of the three years of the academy, counting to gain more money on the way by working even harder.
Before you guess, I am already working several jobs at the same time: as English, German and Arabic teacher, as a contributor to several opportunities in the digital art system, as service in restaurants full time and as a seller in a shop as a mini job.
//Tribute to Radiohead, by Karmel ZarzarI will be grateful for every donation that will help me get closer to my goal and support the future of a Syrian refugee.
Please write to me here or contact me on my social networks if you want to get in touch with me.
Karmel Zarzar
More about me and my art:
My portfolio https://www.behance.net/KarmelZarzar
My art facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Artist/Karmel-Zarzar-Photo-Compositing-1515447202012142/
My interview with Unesco https://mgiep.unesco.org/article/a-meeting-of-minds
Organizer
Karmel Zarzar
Organizer
Oldenburg, Niedersachsen