Lucy Liu Working with Children at Maria's Children

Female: You are watching UNICEF television.

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Lucy Liu visits the Maria’s
children Art Studio in Moscow. Here, children confined to the
State Orphanage System to find their inner artists and an unusually
creative family.

Lucy Liu: I'm here at Maria Children and I've been here for -- I don’t even
know how long. I've lost track of time because we came in when it
was so daylight and when the children came in, we started painting
and drawing and cutting out all these incredible images of birds
and churches and castles and flying horses. If you ask me what
time it was, I wouldn’t even know because when you're with
children, it totally takes you out of what real time is.

They’re just certain freedom and a certain energy that children
have that just makes you feel completely alive. So it’s been such a
pleasure to be in Russia here and in Moscow to discover that there
is such a little diamond in the middle of the city where children
from orphanages can come and just be themselves and not feel like
that they’re in an institutional way they have told where to go and
when they have to go to bed and what they to do because children
should have freedom, because freedom helps them imagine and
create and live their lives. And children are all about colors like
every colors of possibility. It makes you believe again in life and
it’s kind of like a shelter. It’s been a really fantastic experience.

Female: That was UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Lucy Liu at the Maria’s
children art studio in Moscow, Russia. Unite for children.