http://www.upworthy.com/check-out-a-human-library-where-you-borrow-people-instead-of-books?c=ufb4
Human Libraries are setting up around the world where you can borrow people for 30 minutes in stead of a book. The idea is that you borrow a "book", but the book is human. You can sit down and talk to your book and find out about someone who may be different to you.
People volunteer to become books to speak openly about their experiences. Readers are encourages to ask any questions they want, but without judgement.
You can borrow a person with autism. a refugee, a gay person or a person who is transgender, a person who is homeless, blind or deaf, a police officer, a person who follows a different faith, the list goes on.
Ronni Abergel founded the idea in 2000 in Copenhagen. Ronni says, "When you meet our books, no mater who you are and where you are from, in the end, inside every person the result will say, ' we are different from each other, we see things differently and we live life differently. But there are mote things that we have in common than are keeping us apart."
The human library has now spread to over 70 different countries around the world.
http://humanlibrary.org/about-the-human-library/
- what do you see in the picture?
- What is a refugee? How can you "borrow" a refugee? Why would you want to?
Explain the image
- why do you think Ronni set up the first human library?
- why do people talk to people they do not know?
- what does the phrase, 'Don't judge a book by it's cover!' mean?
- what do you think people learn when they use the human library?
- the human library has spread to over 70 countries, what does that tell us about people around the world?
- If we were to run a human library, what experiences could we share?
- how does this link to our No Outsiders ethos?
www.equalitiesprimary.com
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