United Nations Presentation - Virtual Reality Films

Our own Morning Star Rotarian, Bill Hunter, Director of International Outreach at Lehigh University, will host this unique program. Along with Kristin Gutekunst, Project Manager, United Nations Sustainable Development Action Campaign they will have 10 virtual reality glasses with two films of 8 minutes duration. 

Clouds over Sidra transports viewers to the Zaatari Refugee Camp, which is home to 80,000 Syrians fleeing violence and war. The film tells the story of Sidra, a young girl who has been in Zaatari since the summer of 2013 as she tries to find normalcy in her new surroundings and hold on to the remnants of childhood. She takes us on a tour of the camp, providing her thoughts on school, her family’s makeshift tent, boys and football, and closing with her hopes for the future.

Waves of Grace captures a young woman’s tale of love, loss, and rebirth amid the Ebola epidemic. In the film we accompany Decontee Davis, a native of West Point, Liberia, as she guides us through the streets of her township, into schools, hospitals, abandoned buildings and burial grounds. She finds solace by using her immunity to help patients, care for those orphaned, fight stigma, and in the faith of forgiveness.

Please join us for a very contemporary reality experience.