Courage to Care, a travelling exhibition, aims to inform and educate Australians of the dangers of prejudice and discrimination.
It educates visitors, in particular students, towards an understanding of the roles of victim, perpetrator and bystander by exposing them to survivors of the Holocaust and their rescuers.
Courage to Care combats bullying and racism by empowering the individual to make a difference.
The Courage to Care program is designed to convey a message of communal tolerance and living in harmony, through the stories of individuals who had the Courage to Care. It gives one the opportunity to meet a living historian. A key part of Courage to Care is our education program, particularly directed at years 5 to 12 school students. The talks by Holocaust survivors, and our Living in Harmony workshops, run by professionally-trained facilitators, bridge the gap between the events shown in the exhibition and contemporary issues.
Courage to Care emphasises the importance of standing up against racism and persecution, especially in relation to minority groups. This is done by focusing on the rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. The brave people who put themselves at enormous personal risk to save Jews and other minority groups, with the overriding theme that just one individual can make a difference. Courage to Care is committed to upholding the dignity and worth of every human being. It strives to maintain and strengthen democratic societies in which everyone, irrespective of racial, religious or ethnic background, is treated as equal. It welcomes the development of multicultural societies in which people of diverse backgrounds can live together in harmony and safety. It opposes stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination as anti-social phenomena that serve only to promote division, hatred and even violence.