From Metropolis Magazine:Imagine you’re a 9-year-old girl living in the Shatila Refugee Camp in Beirut, where basic infrastructure is lacking and clean drinking water hard to come by. Now imagine your father is fighting hepatitis C and unable to work, leaving your mother as the sole wage earner and you as the caretaker for three younger brothers. Having a little trouble picturing what that must be like? Well, an international collective of filmmakers, designers, architects and activists called the Global Lives Project (GLP) wants to help you understand it better.
GLP is in the process of recording 24 hours in the lives of ten people—including the 9-year-old refugee Jamila Jad—who represent the world population in terms of geography, gender, age, income and religion. The goal, says founder and executive director David Evan Harris, is to reshape how we “perceive cultures, nations and people outside [our] communities by collaboratively building a video library of human life experience.”
“I was lucky enough to spend eight months living and studying international development in Tanzania, India, the Philippines and the UK,” Harris continues. “Part of [what] stuck with me the most was sharing the experience of daily life with the families and individuals. I wanted to bring that experience to people who didn’t have the same opportunities to travel abroad as I did.”
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