A Spot of Weekend Hope

If you have a chance this (cloudy? it's cloudy, right?) weekend, you should try and make it out to Loring Park to do this.
Put on by Doctors Without Borders, you will be shown a very tiny window to what it might be like to be a refugee. There are visuals of the conditions refugees are often forced into including houses, food, water, bathrooms, health care, etc. But you can sit in the tents, taste the biscuits they hand out and carry the five gallon water jugs.
By no means is this at the same caliber of experiencing a refugee's life, but if nothing else, you can learn about everything that Doctors Without Borders has done.
And this kid learns by interaction.