Our Young People's Future Has Already Started
Join Others Are Us in a city-wide, nation-wide and world-wide initiative to have the voices of young people, captured through art, inform and shape the future. Our goal is to engage children and youth from every imaginable background and circumstance in a collaborative effort to create a real picture of who lives in our city, in our country and on our planet. (See how you can get involved.) Read more.....
Our Stars
Meet our 2009-2010 superstar EMBRACE participants from IS 190 in the Bronx.
Their Story
In their own words, in unsolicited letters about Project EMBRACE and what it meant to connect with other young people, our kids reveal a lot about their lives and learning.
Human Rights
The NYS Div. of Human Rights hosted an exhibition for IS 190 students. Kids shared what they learned about poverty and lack of access to education and how the two are intertwined.
NYer of the Week
See Project EMBRACE in action at IS 190 on November 11, 2010. Then find our how you can get involved.
Believe
Hope is the start; action is the plan. Understanding and respect are the foundation. Change is possible.
PROGRAMS FOR ALL AGES
- Elementary
- Middle
- High School
- Family
- Summer
Elementary school age children gain a deeper understanding of themselves, their culture and their place in the world by connecting with others on topics that capture the interest of children everywhere. 
By the program’s end, children from different countries, cultures, backgrounds and beliefs see each other as potential friends rather than strangers to be feared.
(Empowering Multicultural Belonging, Respect, Appreciation, 
Cooperation, Equality)
Middle school students partner with their peers from different places and cultures to explore their lives, community and the larger world they live through an extended art exchange. Youth become adept at identifying stereotypes and analyzing sources of information to determine reliability. They develop skills that enable them to build community, identify shared issues and work together to create change in our world.
Global Leadership Initiative
Retaining OAU’s emphasis on art as a strong cultural connector, GLI 
takes high school youth quickly into exchanges with their peers world-wide that highlight selected UN Millennium Development Goals: poverty and hunger, universal education, gender equality and women’s empowerment, HIV/AIDS and environmental sustainability.
Students develop visual communication and advocacy skills and take on a leadership role in formulating and implementing a cooperative campaign for positive global change.
One of our successful family/intergenerational programs brings people of all ages together to draw or paint floral masterpieces derived from OAU’s dictionary of flowers. MFWF highlights the universal love of flowers and nature that we all share and suggests that we reach out to others to come together to protect Mother Earth. 
Click to see a Dictionary of Flowers.
All Others Are Us programs can be offered as a stand-alone summer 
immersion program or as a component of an existing summer program. For high school students, we offer the Global Leadership Initiative which prepares them to launch a club at their school to expand cross-cultural awareness and sensitivity and explore global concerns with an eye on shared solutions.