The following feedback comes from students and visitors to Torn From Home: My Life as a Refugee at the Harrington Discovery Center in Amarillo, Texas.

I will never forget this experience at the Amarillo Discovery Center. Hopefully, others who see this exhibit will begin to open their own eyes and give a little back to some people who really need our help.”

Every area of the exhibit is an eye opening experience, from the faces on the wall to the need for clean water to the school where teachers try to help keep life as normal as possible for these refugee children. Seeing the example of a school where there might not be a teacher and where supplies are hard to come by, made me want to go immediately and be a teacher in a refugee camp. That was my original goal in becoming a teacher. Seeing it pulled at my heart and made my feet want to run to do it. ”

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Khue Khang, a Hickory man born in Laos, lived in two refugee camps in Thailand. He says the exhibit rings true. The faux barbed wire is familiar to him. When he was 14, separated from his mother, father and brother, it ringed the camp he and 20,000 others called home.”

Museum recreates a refugee's life by Ragan Robinson, Hickory Record, January 28, 2010
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Quick - Quick - pick five things to take on the road. There is no certainty of when you will be home, only that the soldiers will arrive soon, and staying is not an option. This is the scenario that Suzy Breitner relays in Torn From Home: My Life as a Refugee, a new exhibit at the Lisa Ann Watson Children's Discovery Museum on life in a refugee camp.”

A new exhibit in Kendall: Your life as a refugee by Paradise Afshar, The Miami Herald, October 14, 2009
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As the numbers of refugees settling in the US has risen, schools with refugees enrolled in them are adapting to the newcomers. Dr. James Hoot, president of the Association for Childhood Education International, a nonprofit that advocates for children’s rights, and a specialist on refugee children education, said that the exhibition is useful for teachers as well.”

Lives of Refugee Children Revealed in Traveling Exhibit by Ekaterina Strekalova
UNA-USA World Bulletin, August 19, 2009
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‘…I thought it would be a great way to bring an important global issue to Pueblo,’ Sanchez-Kennedy says. ‘It's designed to show what's happening around the world.’ ”

Torn From Home by Mary Jean Porter, The Pueblo Chieftain, May 23, 2009
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Las Vegas Valley kids get to imagine being forced from their homes, taking only what they can carry, in replica camp at children’s museum…The displays, designed to get children fully engaged — even wanting to be aware — are spectacular.”

Refugees for a day by Kristen Peterson, The Las Vegas Sun, June 12, 2008
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