January 2016

Za’atari refugee camp, the world’s largest, forces residents to navigate unpaved, inaccessible terrain. Safwan Harb, disabled by polio, engineered a wheelchair-bike from scavenged parts, deliberately using discarded materials so that other disabled people could replicate his design. His invention transforms immobility into agency within a system that abandoned accessibility entirely.

Although Truck Art existed in Pakistan before 2016, Truck Art Child Finder made portraits of missing children and put their relevant information on them, allowing them to be seen by people in deep rural and disconnected areas, with it even getting global attention, shedding light on the issue of missing children.