What is Forced From Home?
Forced From Home is a one-hour guided tour through an interactive exhibition designed to educate the public about the global refugee crisis. With experienced Doctors Without Borders aid workers leading the tour, visitors can engage with stories and materials gathered from refugee camps, sea rescue missions, and emergency medical projects around the world. This immersive tour will bring visitors closer to the real experiences of people displaced by violence and extreme hardship worldwide.
Forced From Home Exhibition
With experienced Doctors Without Borders aid workers guiding the tours, visitors navigate a 10,000-square-foot installation designed to convey some of the challenges confronting a person forced to flee. Visitors engage with stories and materials gathered from refugee camps, sea rescue missions and emergency medical projects.
Throughout the tour, visitors hear from Doctors Without Borders aid workers who provide humanitarian relief on the front lines of the refugee crisis. The immersive experience includes virtual reality and 360-degree videos that transport viewers to witness the stories and scenes of displaced people in camps and communities around the globe.
The exhibition provides a unique educational experience for adults and children ages 12 and older. Visitors gain a deeper understanding of the global refugee crisis, the dangerous journey made by those who have been forced from home and the humanitarian assistance offered by Doctors Without Borders.
The Forced From Home exhibition will continue this fall in Minneapolis, Chicago, Charlotte, Atlanta, and San Antonio. 
Why Focus on Refugees?
Over 68.5 million people are currently fleeing conflict or persecution worldwide. Due to their race, religion or nationality, these people’s homes are no longer safe places to live and their governments no longer provide them with protection.
Doctors Without Borders works around the world to provide refugees and internally displaced people with everything they need from psychological care to lifesaving nutrition. We set up hospitals in refugee camps, help women give birth safely, vaccinate children to prevent epidemics and provide access to safe drinking water.
Why an Interactive Exhibition?
While delivering emergency medical care across a wide range of countries and continents, Doctors Without Borders sees firsthand the horrific conditions and suffering that drive people to risk their lives for the chance of a better and safer future.
Forced From Home is designed to raise public awareness about the experience of refugees and internally displaced people, and provides us with an opportunity to speak out on behalf of our many patients around the world who may not have a way to speak for themselves.
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