Evanston Township High School senior Zoe Kaufman raised money for refugees as part of her Bat Mitzvah project when she was 13. After cooking dinner with Syrian refugee families around the same time, she felt even more connected to the refugees in Evanston. “I thought, ‘These people are here with me and I have the.
In a study of low-income, urban youth in the U.S., researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health found that students exposed to Photovoice, an educational intervention, experienced greater improvements in STEM-capacity scores and environmental awareness scores compared to a group of youth who were not exposed to the activity. The results suggest that the Photovoice activities may be associated with improved learning outcomes.