Building Hope: Refugee Learner Narratives (2015)
This document is intended to help strengthen the capacity of school communities at all levels (early, middle, and senior years) to provide an appropriate and supportive school environment for refugee and war-affected learners and their families. The core of the document is the stories or ‘learner narratives’ of eleven young Canadians of refugee or war-affected backgrounds who were interviewed about their experiences before coming to Canada and their immigration life since then, with emphasis on their education pathways.
The following documents and specific sections are available for download as PDF 
files.
Interactive PDF Version (10.84 MB)
Print PDF Version (9.29 MB)
Specific sections of the print version:
- Cover Page (245 KB)
- ISBN Page (56 KB)
- Acknowledgements (68 KB)
- Contents (67 KB)
- Introduction (244 KB)
- Purpose (138 KB)
- Description (173 KB)
- Reflections and Observations (175 KB)
- Video Resources and Contextual Information for Each Narrative (348 KB)
- The Impact and Effects of War on Children
(259 KB) - Anam (Burundi) (759 KB)
- Angelica (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (1.0 MB)
- Bandiri (Somalia) (1.31 MB)
- Favor (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (896 KB)
- Keza (Rwanda) (1.03 MB)
- Layla (Somalia) (999 KB)
- Mary (South Sudan) (967 KB)
- Mustapha (Sierra Leone) (1.03 MB)
- Nevaeh (Sierra Leone) (1.20 MB)
- Tanya (Afghanistan) (1.01 MB)
- Yodu (South Sudan) (964 KB)
- Appendices (273 KB)
