We Are The Future

(Author: Rita Rhoda Stroud  )

Imagine you are a child (18 years old or under) that had to leave your home alone or with your family.  As an immigrant, you would move to a new country simply to be close to family, or due to economic factors. As a refugee, however, you would flee to another country in fear because of famine, war, poverty, natural disaster, or gang violence. How would you feel in this new country with a different language, different customs, and people who look different than you? Even worse, how would you feel if you stayed in a refugee camp, with no schools or hospitals and no hope for you to ever go back to your home? Would you take pride in your heritage, or would you hide it? Would you feel grateful that you are safe in this new country, or would you be scared of being deported? Would you be able to make friends or stay as an outsider feeling you would never fit it? Children of immigrants and refugees face these problems as they walk through their lives in an unknown country.  #WeAreTheFuture #TakeActionProject

(Author: X.T. Bethia Dayton )

(Author: Nara Valerie Goode )

(Author:  Tilda Tara Campbell  )

(Author:  Dawn Gwen Wakefield)

In school, the Filipino kids were discriminated against and called “ipis” which means cockroach just because they were not familiar with modern technology and certain ways of transportation. People from other countries are taking advantage of the Filipino people in politics ,and they threaten the Filipinos with saying they will take away their land and food if they don’t do what they say. Health access and education are also being taken away from the Filipinos. In school, sometimes when they are learning about a specific subject, their indigenous identity is not taken into consideration and it makes it harder for the Filipino kids to learn. Some Filipino people are also discriminated against in their jobs and they only get accepted into work places with bad circumstances and not very good jobs. They are being judged for their jobs not by their talent but by their job category, income, education, gender, and other things that shouldn’t be judged. Some Filipino that have moved to the US, are being discriminated, not with words, but people are just ignoring them completely and either forgetting about them or not even wanting to care about them.  #WeAreTheFuture #TakeActionProject

(Author: Nellie F.P. Wilkerson)

This podcast was created by the GS troop - TPH Unicorns. This limited podcast series serves as a "Take Action Project" for the Cadettes as they finish their Media journey.  We are using media "for good". We are demonstrating that we can positively use media to bring about awareness to underserved and marginalized communities, both nation wide and globally. It is our hope that this podcasts spreads awareness about marginalized communities and their challenges. We want to demonstrate that media truly can be used for good to help our national and global community.