1. Project Definition

DrawMyLife presents a child’s perception of migration and exile through anonymised drawings and data.

Our aim is to use this data to raise awareness about the impact of migration on children’s lives among campaigners, researchers, and the wider public; and in particular to advocate for psychological support for children who have experienced trauma.

We will realise this aim in several ways:

• by enabling NGOs working with refugee children to upload the children’s drawings and quickly add important information about age, gender, mood - as well as the child’s own story.
• by designing search and curation tools to help our partners, Terre des Hommes, and others supporting the Destination Unknown campaign, lobby for the rights of children on the move.
• by contributing unique data on the psychological health of refugee children to UNOCHA’s Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX), for use by NGOs, governments, and media.

Project docs

Roadmap

Forwards plan: 5 Sept to 3 Oct