refugees
Resettling Refugees — Community Responses to War Digital Storytelling Project, #2
The Schenectady Unitarian Society's Social Action Council produced this digital story with a local Iraqi refugee who chose to remain anonymous, documenting local antiwar and refugee resettlement efforts and how this refugee came to be in Albany.
Produced as part of The Sanctuary for Independent Media's "Be The Media" digital storytelling workshop, with support from Nicole Belanger and funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts.
To get involved with local refugee resettlement efforts, check out these web sites: Iraqi Refugee Project Coalition, Women Against War, Diocese of Albany Catholic Charities, and Albany Chapter of the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants.
"Dear Mr. X" — Community Responses to War Digital Storytelling Project, #1
As part of the "Be The Media" digital storytelling workshop, a group of young Iraqi women refugees living in Albany worked with producers at The Sanctuary for Independent Media to tell their stories.
Produced by Tethkar Ahmad, Wied Jassim, Shahad Jassim, Mais Salih, and Hiba Haitham Alsaffar, with support from the Iraqi Children's Art Exchange, Iraqi Refugee Project, and Branda Miller.
Don't Forget Us: Iraqi Children
(Photo by Tyler Boudreau)Claudia Lefko, of the Iraqi Children's Art Exchange, with Iraqi artist Thamer Dawood, held a day of art, eating, and socializing at the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY as part of an effort to build ties with Iraqi families who have recently immigrated to the United States and settled in the Albany area.Congratulations to the Iraqi Children's Art Exchange, honored as finalist
for the 2008 ArtVenture Freedom to Create Prize!For more information:Iraqi Children's Art Exchange
www.IraqiChildrensArt.orgThe Iraqi Refugee project is a coalition of Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace, Women Against War, and Women's Association for Family Affairs. They are working with Iraqi refugees in the Capital District to share their soties, reunite refugees with local family members, raise funds to support their material needs, and work with the Iraqi Student Project to bring students to the area and help them to attend local college. For more information:Iraqi Refugee project, www.womenagainstwar.org
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