About New Exhibit Coming to Houston!
We're excited share with you about Heartstrings: Connection to the World’s Children, a new interactive and immersive exhibit curated by UNICEF USA that will bring the global challenges faced by the young to the forefront.
This multi-city exhibit will kick off in Houston and run from March 21 to April 7. It is part of a 13-city journey including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, over the next two years that will bring this exhibit to over 200,000 people. The event represents a collaborative effort to connect communities with the realities of kids worldwide.
The immersive display will be carried out across eight zones in Post Houston, each dedicated to highlighting core pillars crucial for the success and future of the world’s youth. The first part of the exhibit talks about birth to a few years old, and what it’s like being a child, as way to connect people to the things that are important for children those first 1,000 days of their lives. Other sections in the show explore themes such as education and the importance of being heard.
Spotlight on Polio Eradication
What’s most exciting to me as a Rotarian is that within the exhibit, our work to eradicate polio will be prominently featured. A photo and story will depict this live saving work, and Rotary International will be featured for our partnership with UNICEF.
Rotary International along with the Gates Foundation are the only two organizations named in the exhibit, and our logo will also be featured as a partner at the entryway. Our work will be shared with hundreds of thousands of visitors to the exhibit, and we’re hopeful that many
Rotarians will want to go to the exhibit with their families to take pride in our polio eradication efforts, attend as a special club outing or attract prospective members to join us.
To learn more about what you’ll experience during this exhibit, please view the first 1:45 of this video or read more in a recent issue of Houstonia Magazine.