Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC) has created the Tour for Humanity (T4H). This exciting educational initiative is a fully self-contained mobile classroom that educates students in a highly interactive environment. The Tour for Humanity inspires and empowers students to raise their voices and take action against hate and intolerance to help make the world a better place.
Since its launch in 2013, T4H has educated over 150,000 students at 750 schools and communities across Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Quebec. The bus travels throughout Canada, educating people from different personal and professional backgrounds and experiences. It provides education on historical events, and focus on how these events are relevant to both Canadian and global perspectives.
Education programs on T4H have been specially crafted for both students and adults alike. For this reason, we are able to engage all age groups and specifically cater workshops to impact everyone including law enforcement, educators, students, business and community leaders and government.
Each session is led by an experienced educator to introduce the content and lead the discussion. The classroom teacher is responsible for preparing students with pre and post activities and assignments. We have also developed educational materials for teachers to make use of before and after the program, in order to begin and continue conversations about the topics covered.
Each session is approximately 45-60 minutes long, and can accommodate one class of 30 people at a time. During a typical school day, this would accommodate up to six classes or 180 students per day.
Programming is directly linked to the Ontario Ministry of Education expectations including:
The T4H bus requires a designated parking area of 20ft x 50ft to park the bus and allow students to flow on and off safely. There is a fee to bring the bus to schools. Please contact tourforhumanity@fswc.ca or 416.864.9735 x 22 for more information.
The Tour for Humanity is a great vehicle to begin a community dialogue and to showcase support for human rights. We invite communities to exhibit the “Bus” by working alongside our education team to create an impressive program. Although not exhaustive, here are some ideas of where and how T4H can be utilized:
For more information or to book T4H at your school or community, please contact us:
tourforhumanity@fswc.ca or 416.864.9735