Home & Shelter Issues month final SUMMARY

The month is over, but the resources live on right here!

Resources by theme

Certain themes, inter-related of course, seemed to resonate through Home & Shelter issues month. Discussions were accompanied by a lot of easily accessible online resources. This page is a collection of many of these, grouped by inter-related themes.

For the complete discussions, please go to the dedicated Facebook page and/or the Home & Shelter blog and/or Carla Arena’s Pinterest page.

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Family

• Some photos of family & home from Material World – P. Menzel
• Family portraits of 56 ethnic groups in China

Basic shelter needs, rights

• UN Habitat photos
• Play Spent – Poverty awareness
• Build Homes Now – Public meeting Dublin
• Ryan’s Well – 6-year-old brings water to a village in Uganda – video
• Animal bridges – video

Homelessness

• Film English – The Conditioned
• Gimme Shelter – a Playing for Change music video
• Homeless piano man – video
• Homeless students – USA
• One of world’s most livable cities vs. Canada’s poorest postal code
• Homelessness Posters – Google
• Homelessness Ed – Washington State
• Man charged for feeding homeless

Refugees, displacement, immigration

• Why Are We Locking Up Immigrants? – New Internationalist article
• Roma evicted from camp in Paris & Amnesty reaction
• Expulsion of Bedouins – West Bank
• Intercultural Education, Picturebooks and Refugees – A.M. Dolan
• Refugee Boy – review

Identity, belonging

• The news where you are – satirical video
• Language, belonging and identity – Guyanese poet & Artist reciting the poem
• True Stories of Belonging – Canada Writes=
• The Paradox of Citizenship – Massey lecture
• What is Sukkot – article
• Vancouver First nations – student video

Many thanks to all who have contributed!

The month may be over, but…

We invite you to continue to browse, to comment, to question, to contribute.

Please go to the dedicated Facebook page and/or the Home & Shelter blog and/or Carla Arena’s Pinterest page

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