Ben Schumaker’s “Memory Project” already connects the lives of thousands of American high schoolers with children living in orphanages in some of the world’s poorest countries.
Tonight, it could grab the attention of millions of television viewers worldwide.
Now in its third year, the program founded by the UW- Madison grad in his former one-room sublet recruits artists at high schools across the country to create masterful portraits of the children, many of whom own nothing more than the clothes on their backs – and possess no other visual records of their childhoods.