More about the Gallery of the (New) Home
Everyone has a sense of what home means to them. Home is something everyone can identify with – particularly that it should feel both safe and comforting. Whether it’s an armchair, a book, a person, a bicycle, a meal or a welcome, there’s always one symbol that takes you right back to that feeling of home.
But what does home mean when you’ve been forced to flee yours, because of war and persecution; what makes somewhere new a home?
About thecampaign
#WhatHomeMeans
We want to explore #WhatHomeMeans to refugees, and their friends, families and supporters. We’re asking the public to help us create a brand new digital exhibition: UK for UNHCR’s Gallery of the (New) Home – that will inspire us to keep working together to help refugees around the world find a safe, new place that they can call home.
The gallery launches at the start of Refugee Week, a nationwide programme which runs every year to celebrate the contribution of refugees to the UK, encouraging a better understanding between communities.
We hope that notions of home expressed through the range of items and experiences in this digital exhibition, will surprise, challenge and encourage us to continue our work standing together #WithRefugees and helping to find safe homes for refugees from around the world.
The number of people forced to flee their homes has increased every year over the past decade and now stands at the highest level since records began.
With the war in Ukraine starting in February of 2022, and other conflicts, more than 100 million are now displaced – this means 1 in every 78 people on earth has been forced to flee from the place they call home.
The notion of home is something that the majority of us can relate to. A home is meant to be a place of comfort and safety.
Each year, UK for UNHCR supports thousands of refugees to find a place of safety that they can call home, and whilst what makes our home a home will be different for each of us, the concept of home and how it should make us feel, is unifying.
The gallery is a beautiful, compelling and emotive digital exhibition of images that we want to continue to grow during Refugee Week and beyond. We would love you to be involved in this project. We would love to see home through your eyes – tell us #WhatHomeMeans…
