The Big Idea
Picture books deliver cognitive, social, and emotional benefits to children. Relatable and inspiring books can restore hope, help kids feel less alone, and provide tools to cope with adversity. To-date, however, too few picture books are reaching children coping with humanitarian crises. Picture books are not in their languages, do not reflect their cultures, and do not address their experiences. Humanitarian Picture Books is the first platform dedicated to closing the gap in picture books for crisis-affected kids.
What story do you know about the Rohingya?
A story about violent persecution, displacement, and refugees?
Stories shape how kids understand themselves and the world. Our stories affect how kids recover, grow, connect, explore, and dream.
Humanitarian Picture Books empowers crisis-affected kids to see a different story for themselves.
We do this through…
Humanitarian Picture Books are in the languages, celebrate the cultures, and address the experiences of crisis-affected kids and their communities. Together, we are using creativity as a resource to heal, to restore agency, and to reclaim their narrative.
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For the Rohingya, books are activism. Rohingya ethnicity, language, and culture has been denied and attacked. Humanitarian Picture Books is honored to partner with Rohingya creatives to preserve and take pride in their culture, and to empower the youngest generation to recover and to dream.