Everyone can participate in aiding the displaced as they seek stability. Get involved today! Students of any age can help, as well as adults. See our short list of things you can do.
29 June, InSite is taking a small team of 10 to Calais, France to volunteer in the refugee warehouse for the weekend. Join Us!
You don’t have to view yourself or others as a racist to own up to having implicit bias’s. Raising your awareness of how you view others is the biggest step in seeing how bias plays a role in how see others and treat others, as individuals and collectively as groups. The good news, this can be changed.
Stichting Reckoning’s InSite program was acknowledged by the WorldWide Business Review in the 2018 Most Innovative Businesses in the Netherlands with the title of “Most Outstanding Youth Training Workshops”.
See a little of the InSite youth leadership team in action in South Africa. InSite used the IDEO human-centered Design material as we partnered with the #Philipsfoundation installing 10 solar street lights and getting a bakery structure built in the informal settlement of #Enkanini on the edge of Stellenbosch.
Where desire and reality clash. How experiences of empowerment are not as accessible to the very populations aimed at empowering. In South Africa, for most, seeing this movie is a challenge.
When assumptions cause unintentional harm, how can we learn how to really help one another in ways that demonstrate respect and dignity? How can design tools help us do this?
It's almost a knee-jerk reaction to be annoyed when things don't go smoothly, the wifi isn't connecting, the train is late, too much traffic, but how does that annoyance play out when tragedy is the cause? How can we find another response?
Design tools have had a tremendous impact in the field of social innovation. The Empathy Map has many applications, and here's one example of a leadership program integrating the map as a way to increase empathy between one another and getting closer in designing and creating things that are relevant and useful.
Getting real with myself... confessions of a white woman in her implicit bias and how admitting to herself this is present which is the first step in learning how to treat the 'others' in life as people.
A time capsule of our short weekend volunteering in Calais, France as we try to wrap our heads and hearts around the conditions and complexities of the refugee crisis as it is unfolding in this part of Europe.
The Youth Leadership Team, InSite will be traveling to Calais from 1-3 December volunteering at the Refugee Community Kitchen, and with 2 other local NGO's, organized by HAiG with the refugees stranded, most of which are unaccompanied minors. Hear what Teresa, an International student from the ISA has to say before going and her call to action for those of us living in Europe.