Holding the Earth Together: Youth Voices Speak for Our World
Stories of Arrival in collaboration with the IRC New Roots Program at the Namaste Garden.
The International Rescue Committee, (IRC), Namaste Garden is located directly behind Foster High School. The garden is an IRC New Roots Program for refugee gardeners which also has a focus on youth programs that support learning about food systems and sustainability from a social justice perspective. During this collaborative project the students had the opportunity for working and learning in the Namaste Garden. The question of “How should we care for the earth and each other?” was at the heart of the 2017 poetry project from which the anthology, Holding the Earth Together: Youth Voices Speak for Our World was created.
The groundbreaking Stories of Arrival Refugee & Immigrant Youth Poetry Project is in its seventh year in Seattle, and this anthology offers the fruit of dozens of students' efforts as English Language Learners to put their wrenching experiences of migration into words, using the power of poetry and the tools of art.
