WITNESS CHANGE
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Mission Statement
Witness Change is a non-profit organization that exists to improve the lives of excluded people by amplifying their stories. Stigmatized people are often excluded from their own stories. We use visual storytelling to support these people as they reclaim the narratives of their lives to achieve necessary change such as influencing policies, attitudes and behaviors that affect them.
About This Cause
Witness Change operates multiple projects, including Where Love Is Illegal, In My World and 1000 Dreams. Witness Change is campaigning for an end to discrimination and persecution based on sexuality or gender identity. Our project, Where Love Is Illegal, uses storytelling as a key advocacy tool to change the narrative on LGBTIQ+ people in countries where their voices are silenced because LGBTIQ+ people are, in some regions, increasingly subject to rampant discrimination, criminalization, and even death. It is a platform allowing for the sharing of LGBTQI+ stories of discrimination and survival, unmanipulated and uncensored. In doing so, we are supporting LGBTQI+ people in taking back control of the narrative of their lives. See more on our website (www.whereloveisillegal.com) and on our Instagram feed (@whereloveisillegal). In My World shares the stories of individuals who live with mental health problems in a highly visual way, both to help obtain funding for mental health services around the world and to ensure that the people affected are part of the conversation around the issue. In My World is expanding from its historical focus on African countries in crisis to be a truly global project that documents stories from all around the world and from people from all walks of life. See more on our website (onedayinmyworld.com) and on our Instagram feed (@onedayinmyworld). 1000 Dreams changes prevailing refugee narratives through a storytelling project that tells the stories of 1000 refugees of diverse experience. For attitudes, policies and practices to change, the narrative must change. For the narrative to change, the lives of refugees have to be authentically represented. The 1000 interviews, conducted entirely by storytellers with a refugee background, open a door to their misunderstood and misrepresented world. See more on our website (1000dreamsproject.com) and on our Instagram feed (@1000dreams).