"Walk a Mile in My Shoes"

All Conference participants are encouraged to take part in the "Walk a Mile in My Shoes" refugee simulation pre-conference session. Representatives from the JUHAN Hub and Catholic Charities Worcester will be facilitating this simulation. The simulation runs from 10am-12pm. Note that you can start at any time (prior to 11:30am) and that the simulation takes about thirty minutes.

Today, more than 65 million people are displaced around the world, the most since World War II. While it is impossible to fully comprehend what it is like to be forced from your home and live as a refugee, Jesuit Refugee Service/USA invites you to host a Walk a Mile in My Shoes simulation, which provides individuals and communities with an opportunity to pause and experience, if only vicariously and for a few moments, the frustrations, disappointments and hopes that refugees around the world face.

What is "Walk a Mile in My Shoes?"

• An opportunity for communities to pause and experience, if only vicariously and if only for a few moments, the frustrations, the disappointments, and the hopes that refugees around the world face.

• A structured event in which individuals, students, community groups, and their guests assume the role of refugees and act out some typical activities that a refugee experiences.

• A strong tie to the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) mission of serving the forcibly displaced and the centuries long Jesuit tradition of promoting social justice.

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