A project helped connect Lima students and children in Cameroon.
The Memory Project had Lima Senior High School students receive pictures of orphaned children in Cameroon in West Central Africa. The students then created portraits of each of them.
Each portrait will be delivered to the children as a keepsake.
"They are all orphans of Cameroon, so this is about us creating that bond and giving them something that they do not normally have, by creating an image of them," said Elsbeth Nelson, a Senior at Lima Senior High School. "We put our hand on the back and write a little message, like how old we are, and create that connection and have something that they can call their own."
"Our normal is not their normal," said Keegan Halliday, a Junior at Lima Senior High School. "So to be able to give them these personal little things that are just as simple as a portrait... it's something to these kids, and learning about that, what we have here, we shouldn't take it for granted."
