Memory Keepers
Project
The Memory Keepers Project nurtures resilience and empathy through intergenerational storytelling.
Children & teens follow our Memory Keepers Project lessons and guidance to interview elders in their communities for stories about their lives. The goal is to preserve stories creatively and humanely, using the teachings as a North Star to guide the participants into an ethical, caring and resilient life of their own.
EMPOWERING EVERYONE TO BE A MEMORY KEEPER
Every one of us are Memory Keepers. A Memory Keeper is someone who collects the stories of others so they can be honored, treasured and shared. The Memory Keeper Project reminds participants of their ability to both give and receive stories, and to hold and retell them with care and reverence.
FOSTERING INTERGENERATIONAL CONNECTION
By sharing stories, we learn from the past to shape the future with greater purpose. The Memory Keepers Project invites community members to listen deeply, honor lived experiences, and help shape how our most meaningful stories are gathered, understood, and passed on.
STEWARDING COLLECTIVE MEMORY
The Memory Keepers Project empowers participants to become compassionate stewards of collective memory, encouraging their ability to become narrators of a more connected, hopeful future. LitWorld collects and amplifies these stories, giving them a platform to be shared with an international community, ensuring that all of our stories play a role in shaping our world.
The MKP, Around the World
If you are interested in bringing the Memory Keepers Project to your community, get in touch.
Our wonderful partners from India, Colombia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Haiti, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, Rwanda, and the USA have officially begun their local chapters of The Memory Keepers Project.
At LitWorld, we believe in the importance of nurturing resilience and empathy through intergenerational storytelling. The work done by our amazing partners helps us in our mission to create the best possible humans to lead the best possible world.
The Memory Keepers Kit
Our Memory Keepers Kit is everything a LitKid needs to go into the field and collect memories. It includes The Memory Keeper’s Pledge, a 7 Strengths Questions sheet, a two-page Memory Collection Worksheet, and a Quilt Square Graphic Organizer.
Memory Keeper Lessons with Kate Messner
Listen as New York Times bestselling author Kate Messner speaks on best practices for collecting memories, alongside award-winning authors Tracey Baptiste, Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, and Karina Yan Glaser.
Introduction and Tips for Interviewing
Kitchen Stories
Looking to Tradition for Stories
Becoming your Own Memory Keeper
The Memory Keepers Project Quilt (2026) created by the Girl Scouts Heart of NJ.