Facing Difference Challenge
The Facing Difference Challenge rallied more than 80,000 students from 37 countries to reflect and take action toward building understanding, empathy, and peace.
Get Your Students Engaged
Engaging across lines of difference
When we avoid or ignore our differences, understanding can be replaced by division. This is happening in ways big and small, from bullying in our schools to clashes in our communities, to civil wars waging around the globe.
Portraits for Peace
Building peace can start with changing the attitudes of individuals. That’s why we invited students to draw and create self-portraits to celebrate their identity. $600,000 was generated to support young people from Nigeria, Sri Lanka, and the South Caucasus to attend peacebuilding camps and take part in peace projects led by CARE and Search for Common Ground.
Celebrating diversity and peace
By participating in peacebuilding camps and projects, young people now see the possibility of living together, working together, and contributing to a peaceful and prosperous future.
Thousands of portraits were put on display through the Facing Difference Exhibit at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa.
How It Works
Students Rebuild empowers young people ages 5-25 to take direct action and see firsthand how they
can make a difference. The project is adaptable and can be scaled from a single lesson to a full year. We
provide free resources to help you teach within whatever time and space you have.
Sign Up
Educators or youth leaders sign up their group or class for the project.
Explore
Use our free resources to teach students about the issue.
Create
Select a creative medium – visual art, writing, performance, digital media, or STEM – and have students express their ideas, thoughts, and solutions.
Share
Submit students’ work. Each creative work or student engaged unlocks a $5 donation to global charities, up to $1M.
Impact
Creative submissions help raise funds for local and global solutions.
Types Of Creative Work Accepted
Literary Arts (Short stories, essays, and poetry), Performing Arts (Dance, theater, and music), Media Arts (PSAs, films, and videos), Media Arts (PSAs, films, and videos), Visual Arts (Graphic design, drawings, paintings, photography, and memes), STEM (Robotics, digital design, and games)
Help Facing Difference Challenge
Help us reach our goal of raising $1M for . These organizations are working on the ground to care for the air, land, and water around us.
$600,000
Raised of $600,000 goal
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Creative expressions
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Youth engaged
Learn more about the partner organizations these funds are helping support.
See what students are creating around the world
Use this map to find other teams participating in the project — the pins show where teams created their works of creative expression. Click the icons to learn how the programs you helped fund are making a difference.
Frequently Asked Questions
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