My Class Cares

Mission

In striving for a more compassionate society, we believe that helping young people learn about international humanitarian issues will encourage them to grow into adults dedicated to working for positive change. To do this, we organize programs that allow students to become involved in international humanitarian service through the use of art and writing.

Programs

In our Memory Portraits program, highly skilled high school artists create personalized portraits for children around the world who have been orphaned or abandoned. Because of poverty and other circumstances, such children usually have little or no personal belongings. The purpose of the portraits is to provide them with a special memory of their youth and a permanent reminder of their immeasurable importance in the world. In our Books of Hope program, students at all levels work together to create books with uplifting stories and artwork for children living in extremely difficult situations. Currently, the Books of Hope program is focused on the children of northern Uganda, where a brutal civil war has caused unimaginable tragedy for the children of the area, and also on children in India who have been rescued from slavery.