The Tour for Humanity mobile education centre will visit Sault Ste. Marie and area high schools to offer ‘The Canadian Experience’ workshops which educate participants in human rights topics. These include the residential school system, the MS St. Louis, and the internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War.
For additional information, please see the news release issued by the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies below: The Tour for Humanity is a 30-seat, wheelchair-accessible, state-of-the-art, technologically advanced mobile human rights education centre that teaches students, educators, community leaders and front-line professionals about the Holocaust, genocide and Canada’s human rights history through workshops.
Since its launch in 2013, the Tour for Humanity has visited more than 900 schools across Ontario and other provinces – including Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Quebec – and provided powerful lessons on the Holocaust, human rights and justice to more than 175,000 students, educators and community members.
Indoctrination on tour!