Digital arts for youth and community wellbeing
Challenge
Forcibly displaced youth face many challenges that significantly impact their mental health and wellbeing, including stress, trauma and social isolation. This is compounded by linguistic and cultural differences, and limited access to education, basic services, and psychosocial support.
Solution
An innovative, psychosocially informed digital solution, designed in collaboration with displaced youth and artists, to actively involve their peers in digital arts literacy, engage in community projects for artistic and emotional development, and connect across regions through virtual reality meet-ups.
Impact
100 young refugees connect with each other and gain digital, creative, and emotional literacy skills, for greater social connection, self-expression, and overall wellbeing. A further 2,500 individuals benefit indirectly as a result of enhanced community resilience.
Project impact
Other information
Many participants applied their new skills to co-design and paint community murals, engaging an additional 70+ refugee youth and community members in Czechia. Read more about this initiative in our webstory.