There are 8 billion stories out there. We want to share them, one at a time.
“The danger of a single story is not that it’s wrong but that it robs people of their dignity.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
“The danger of a single story is not that it’s wrong but that it robs people of their dignity.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
Our Dignity Stories video project invites children and young people to share a video about what dignity means to them.
We want to empower kids who are struggling, marginalized, and don’t feel seen. These videos give young people a means to express themselves, to share how they feel, how they live, who they are, how they connect to their families and their communities.
By giving young people an opportunity to be seen and heard in their own views and 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.
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 video. 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,” the “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.
Here are some other ways to tell a dignity story
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