There are 8 billion stories out there. We want to share them, one at a time.
Dignity Now! is building community across communities. We’re connecting people from different parts of the world around the simple idea that everyone has something worth saying and every person should be heard.
“The danger of a single story is not that it’s wrong, but that it robs people of their dignity.”
Dignity in Video
Our Dignity Stories video project invites children and young people to share a video about what dignity means to them.
We want to empower young people who are struggling, marginalized, and don’t feel seen. These videos give people a means to express themselves, to share how they feel, to show how they live, to connect with others on the basis of equal and common worth.
By giving young people an opportunity to be seen and heard in their own ways, we can promote their sense of dignity. We can help them further by creating a collection of videos from different parts of the world to build their connections and to give many others opportunities to get to know them.
We’ve asked young people: What does dignity mean to you. Their answers may surprise you: they are beautiful, profound, and clear, and entirely authentic. And you’ll see that dignity means exactly the same thing to people of all ages, all across the world.
Here is one example of a dignity story. This video was created by Enfant Haiti, a child care organization located in Cité Soleil, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Most of the children you see here were participants in an annual competition for the “Princesse Soleil” (“Sun Princess”). The children’s caretaker asked each child what “dignity” means to them. Thanks to Louis Geleste for production and editing and to Nathan St Vil for providing subtitles.
We’d love to post your dignity video too! Reach out to us with your short video.
Dignity Now! makes educational materials for and with kids of all ages!
Click on the cover of this Activity Book for young children to see the first few pages.
Below is the first page of a pamphlet designed for adolescents.
Dignity in Print
Contact us to read more or to develop a similar project for and with your local community.
Here are some other ways to tell a dignity story
“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.”