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Torn From Home: My Life as a Refugee
Most children cannot imagine being forced from their homes. Today, more than 30 million people around the world have been displaced due to war and violence. Of those, nearly 10 million are children. Torn From Home: My Life as a Refugee is an exhibit that takes young audiences on an inspiring, hands-on journey into the lives of refugee children.
Torn From Home is now available as a traveling exhibit for museums around the country. Active Voice, communication specialists that use different media forms to spark social change, is coordinating the traveling exhibit and facilitating the collaboration between the host venue and local refugee serving organizations, to establish and foster a more welcoming community. Community Science has been asked by Active Voice to evaluate both its role as facilitator and the host organization's community engagement and col- laboration efforts. Community Science will also examine whether collaboration leading to concrete action develops between the host organizations and refugee serving organizations (civic and faith-based groups, immigrant and refugee service providers). In addition, Community Science will evaluate the impact such community collaboration has on the capacity of art and cultural institutions to act as advocates for an issue and whether this approach can serve as a model for future partnerships.
The program, created by the Lied Discovery Children's Museum in Las Vegas, NV, is targeted to 8- to 12-year-old children. Thanks to generous funding, no rental fee will be charged to participating museums. For more information, visit Torn from Home or email Community Science.
