Headline : Art is a comfort for these displaced Lebanese kids

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Sara Miliji, 12, from the border village of Naqoura, participates in an art class at a renovated movie theatre in the city of Tyre. Sara's family fled when their village was bombed. They now live along with hundreds of other families in a schoolroom turned into a shelter. Diego Ibarra Sánchez for NPR hide caption

TYRE, Lebanon – As the old American school bus painted in a riot of colors pulls into a school yard in this city in south Lebanon, a dozen children are waiting, the youngest jumping up and down and clapping in excitement.

The former yellow bus, now covered in images of iconic film, music and comedy stars, is at the heart of an arts project that for a few hours a week whisks away children displaced by conflict to a place where they can be kids again.

Kassem Istanbouli, a Lebanese actor and theater director, created the Tiro Association for the Arts in 2014 in the belief that its classes would help youngsters cope with the trauma of conflict. Diego Ibarra Sánchez for NPR hide caption

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