Gorham students 'walk a mile' with refugees

GORHAM — Gorham Middle High School seventh-graders recently were part of a project where they learned about political refugees in countries like Sudan and Rwanda. But this project didn’t just also involve reading about refugees, it involved immersion into the varied issues that refugees face as students “walked a mile” in the shoes of those refugees from other countries.

Gorham language arts teacher Heather Piche and Gorham social studies teacher Daniel Herrick said they worked on the idea together and then engaged their students in a learning activity that included having students build a website, create their own refugee narratives, create a suitcase of items they would bring with them on their trip and even included raising money to fund a child through the Save the Children organization.