In light of the predominance of technology and gaming in our modern culture, children are losing opportunities to use their imaginations and connect with each other. We believe that this is a tragic loss, both for each individual child and for society as a whole. This is why we created “Comics Around the World,” a project in which children create their very own comic book and connect with other kids from different cultures.

Through Comics Around the World, adolescent students continue a previous page’s story, a page created by a class from another country. For example, students in Costa Rica continue the story designed by a class in Colombia, and so on.

Comics around the World is an amazing opportunity to stimulate childrens’ imaginations and to help fix their schools at the same time. We will be REPAIRING SCHOOLS using our architectural skills as we travel to compose the book. Money raised through the campaign will be used to fund the travel expenses of the trip, to purchase furniture, and to sponsor structural repair for schools in need.

The goal of this project is to get kids excited about reading, writing, and using their imaginations on a daily basis. The completed book will be filled with useful and exciting information about the different cultures of each country.

• Connecting Kids from all around the world and sharing their stories to develop compassion and awareness
• Expressing creativity through creation
• Learning new vocabulary
• Introduction to verbal problem-solving
• Exploration of natural concepts
• Encouraging children to think, reason, question and create
• Expansion of the emotional side of children by making them able to take comfort in familiar objects and expanding their minds by trying new things and gaining confidence by achieving success
• Understanding a sequence of events, and grasping spatial relationships and the concept of time
• Increasing children’s confidence to make personal choices and share their ideas, thoughts and feelings within their group

• Buy school furniture supplies for those who need them: Some parents cannot afford to pay school supplies for their kids. We will buy sets of pens, books, etc. and distribute them via schools to the pupils in need.
• Help building or fixing the schools using Adil's architectural skills: Some of the schools we have seen on the road need some minor improvements to their classes. In the past, Adil helped to change the roof of 2 classes in Philippines, new tiles for the primary school in Sri Lanka and ventilation systems for some non-official schools in Kenya.
• Print the Comic Book: A part of the money raised will be used to print the comic book. We already have an agreement with a publishing house to reduce the cost if we order more than 1,000 copies. It will also depend on how many countries will have been unlocked.