Dear Supporter,

Migrants of the Mediterranean isn’t just reporting the stories of voices we rarely hear, it’s also a valuable tool in the classroom.

How do I know?

Because I use MotM’s Journey Stories in English classes I teach at the University of Washington. In a Migration Literature course that covers films, novels, nonfiction, and other cultural texts, the Journey Stories are evidence that what we study inside the classroom has meaning outside of it.

I joined the MotM Board of Directors because I saw how urgent it is to connect our work with students who might otherwise miss it.

I use the Archive to help students take our class readings on a different type of journey: What conversation might a character from one of our novels have with one of our Migrants of the Mediterranean? How does a Journey Story add significance to a class reading?

Art and reality overlap in my writing assignments that use the Journey Story Archive to help students understand global migration through the words of individual people in the migrant community.

I’m not the only professor using the work of MotM. Our NGO also visited UMass-Boston, the University of North Texas, and for young German students, an event with the Goethe Institut-New York City, where four of our community members, Barry (Nigeria), Khalid (Syria), Andrew (Nigeria), and Mohammed (Gambia) joined us in conversation.

Please help us reach more curious students.

When you support MotM during our Annual Holiday Fundraiser, you're helping to circulate meaningful stories that can educate a generation about the migration phenomenon as it is actually lived by people in the migrant community.

Join us today.

Sincerely,


Megan Butler, Ph.D.
Board Member, Migrants of the Mediterranean