The Mentoring and Befriending Foundation is working in partnership with the Saatchi Gallery to produce a national art project called The Elephant in the Room. Children in schools across the UK have decorated elephants (they're really beautiful) which display anti-bullying messages. The children are peer mentors at their schools and are helping to combat bullying by being the eyes and ears of the playground. They wear sashes so they are identifiable as mentors. There's nowhere more terrifying than a playground for children that are being bullied, and using children themselves to monitor and support bullied children is such an intelligent solution. Go and see the exhibition - it's on until Saturday.
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