“Trolls and Diwata” is a collaboration project by the NGO Streetlight (Tacloban, Leyte), the Norwegian Embassy (Manila) and Raffles Design Institute (Manila). This project started with a series of workshops with the street children from Tacloban, Leyte. Streetlight engaged in a dialogue with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Manila about doing a cultural book project together. To kick it off, they invited 90 children living in the slum to a series of 12 workshops.
The following weeks, the process continued as the children expressed their versions of the fairy tales through drawing and painting. They were assisted by two students and Sven Pfrommer a professor from Raffles Design Institute in Manila who partnered up with Streetlight. The result of all this can be found in this book and an additional iPad app version, which is available and downloadable for free.
The book and the iPad app have been designed and illustrated by students from the visual communication department at Raffles
