2018: Facing Difference Challenge
The Facing Difference Challenge was held during the 2017-18 school year to help educators worldwide empower young people to reflect and take action toward building understanding, empathy, and peace.
Your portraits raised $600,000 for peace-building programs.
The Facing Difference Challenge rallied more than 80,000 students from 37 countries to reflect and take action toward building understanding, empathy, and peace.
$600,000
raised of $600,000 goal
86,866
creative expressions
68,310
youth engaged
Why the Facing Difference Challenge?
Engaging across lines of difference
When we avoid or ignore our differences, understanding can be replaced by division. This is happening in ways big and small, from bullying in our schools to clashes in our communities, to civil wars waging around the globe.
Portraits for Peace
Building peace can start with changing the attitudes of individuals. That’s why we invited students to draw and create self-portraits to celebrate their identity. $600,000 was generated to support young people from Nigeria, Sri Lanka, and the South Caucasus to attend peacebuilding camps and take part in peace projects led by CARE and Search for Common Ground.
Celebrating diversity and peace
By participating in peacebuilding camps and projects, young people now see the possibility of living together, working together, and contributing to a peaceful and prosperous future.
Thousands of portraits were put on display through the Facing Difference Exhibit at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa.
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The programs your art helps fund
For each Students Rebuild annual Project, we partner with high-impact organizations working on the ground to help strengthen communities worldwide—many of them household names. The funds we donate transform student work into immediate, on-the-ground progress for carefully vetted programs that are evaluated according to the outcomes they produce. In addition to extending our reach and helping our funding make more of a difference, our partners also inform the resources we provide to teachers and students.
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