In 2019, Give Palestine Association launched the I Am a Narrator competition to encourage children with creative potential to express their ideas, emotions, and life experiences through short story writing. Participants write their stories based on five carefully designed themes that are appropriate for the targeted age group.

Children submit short stories written in Modern Standard Arabic, which are reviewed by a specialized jury of children’s literature experts. Submissions are evaluated according to clear educational and artistic criteria. At the end of this phase, the five best stories are selected, and the winners are honored to recognize their achievements and motivate them to continue reading and writing.

In the second phase, the project transitions to the I Am an Illustrator competition, which focuses on developing children’s visual imagination and artistic expression.

Children are encouraged to creatively interpret the selected stories and transform them into original illustrations that reflect characters, scenes, and ideas in their own artistic style. A specialized jury in visual arts and children’s illustration evaluates the submitted artworks, after which the top five illustrations are selected and their creators recognized, reinforcing artistic confidence and self-expression.

In the final phase, Give Palestine Association integrates the outcomes of both competitions into a single, high-quality creative product by producing a professionally designed illustrated storybook featuring five selected stories, where literary text and visual art come together in a cohesive and engaging format.

This comprehensive initiative was officially named I Am a Creator. According to experts in children’s literature, the project is considered pioneering and innovative, as it adopts a unique creative model in which children write, illustrate, and read for other children, offering a distinctive educational and cultural experience that stimulates imagination and nurtures creativity.