Global Action Project, provides media arts and leadership training for young people living in underserved communities in the Unites States and abroad. Their stated mission is to provide youth with the knowledge, tools, and relationships they need to create powerful, though-provoking media on local and international issues that concern them, and to use their media as a catalyst for dialogue and social change. G.A.P. has developed two media programs specifically for refugees and immigrants. (KHH) Uses videos in documentary style to offer first-hand accounts of the violence experienced by many immigrant youth and of their struggles in adapting to life in the United States. The Global Action Project (G.A.P.) provides the tools, knowledge, and resources required to create video projects to serve as catalysts for awareness, dialogue, and social change. The Documentary Project for Refugee Youth spotlights 10 young immigrants from Sierra Leone, Burundi, Serbia, and Bosnia who have relocated to New York City. Their experiences and feelings are recorded in a scrapbook of poetry, life testimonies, short video essays, a downloadable educational document, and a longer collaborative video describing the immigrant experience. The Immigrant and Refugee Media Project contains three videos of recent refugee/immigrant youth: (1) tracking the experiences of seven adolescent immigrants over 15 days, (2) following12 Kosovar youth facing fear and alienation as they carve out a new life in New York City, (3) framing the immigration reform debate through the eyes of 10 teens. Other videos on the site narrate the lives of teen refugees in a Bosnian/Croatian refugee camp and chronicle 16 summer camp participants describing their thoughts about having two homes- one they were forced to leave and a new one in New York City. (IP)
