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OUR PURPOSE: To expand our understanding of what life is like for refugees through empathy: understanding and sharing the experiences and feelings of others.
OUR PURPOSE: To expand our understanding of what life is like for refugees through empathy: understanding and sharing the experiences and feelings of others.
PROCESS
PROCESS
Understand why people become refugees.
Experience the life of a refugee through audio, video, narrative and image.
Empathize with the plight of refugees through reflection.
OUTCOME
OUTCOME
How would you respond if the life you've known were completely torn away and you were forced to start anew somewhere else?
How might this understanding inform how we think about and treat refugees?
Station #1: Refugee 360 and Videos
Station #1: Refugee 360 and Videos
The following videos share examples of the Refugee experience.
Station #2: The Ukraine Crisis Explained
Station #2: The Ukraine Crisis Explained
Station #3: Images of Refugees: Photography of Crisis
Station #3: Images of Refugees: Photography of Crisis
Take a few moments with each of the following image collections. After previewing them all, select three images that "speak" to you in some way and represent a variety of persons, experiences, or perspectives, and respond to the following:
Collection #1: Refugee Photos (file folder)
Collection #2: New York Times Photography Pulitzer for Coverage of Refugee Crisis (NYT)
Collection #3: Leaving Afghanistan: Faces of Those Who Fled (Reuters)
Collection #4: Refugees (Getty Images)
OBSERVE
OBSERVE
What do you see?
What do you notice first?
What people and objects are shown?
How are they arranged?
What is the physical setting?
What activities are depicted?
What other details do you notice?
What aspects or characteristics seem particularly important?
REFLECT
REFLECT
What does this make you think about?
What’s happening in the image?
When do you think it was made?
Who do you think was the audience for this image?
Why do you think this image was made?
What tools were used to create this?
What can you learn or infer from examining this image?
If someone made this today, what would be different? What would be the same?
QUESTION
QUESTION
What do you wonder about...
Who? - Who is in the picture, who is taking it?
What? - What is happening? What
When? - When was the picture taken?
Where? - Where is the picture taken? Where is the photographer?
Why? - Why is this happening? Why take the picture?
How? - How is this happening? How was the picture taken?
Station #4: Hear Their Voices: Refugee Stories
Station #4: Hear Their Voices: Refugee Stories
Read three stories from three different story collections reflecting experiences from refugees of different ages, locations, and causes. As you read, reflect on the experiences and consider how you might react in the same situations and conditions:
Collection #1: "Untold Atrocities: The Stories of Syria's Children" (Save the Children - PNG/PDF)
Collection #2: Out of Iraq (UNHCR - PDF)
Collection #3: Refuge: 18 Stories from the Syrian Exodus (Washington Post)
Collection #4: Stories of Afghanistan Refugees (Save the Children)
See additional resources below for lots of other refugee stories!
Station #5: What's Happening With China's Uighurs?
Station #5: What's Happening With China's Uighurs?
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