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Newsletter - Spring 2009
PEACEPAL INTRODUCES “ADOPT-A-COUNTRY” PROJECT In order to establish increasingly more stable funding for its international programs, PeacePal is introducing its “Adopt-a-Country” project. Sponsors choose a country and donate $65 a month to run the PeacePal program for a local school and its sibling school for an entire year. 
“By far, our biggest expense is mailing costs,” said Project PeacePal founder and director Sarah Wilkinson. “Even in the age of computers, we have found that old-fashioned hand-written letters are still the most meaningful form of communication.” Read More >> New Theme For Our Third Year As PeacePal celebrates its second anniversary, the organization is marking its transition from terrific two to thrilling three with a new theme that even more clearly captures its mission, “Peace Begins in Me: What One Person Can Do.” “It was important to us to emphasize that peace begins ‘in’ each of us, instead of ‘with’ us,” said Project PeacePal founder and director Sarah Wilkinson. “Our focus is on getting kids to realize that a peaceful world starts with peaceful people – and that means understanding what respect, conflict-resolution and empathy mean in your own life so that you can bring that to your interactions with people from all walks of life.” Read More >>How You Can Help!You too can join us in helping to make our world a more peaceful place. Here are a few ways you can help:
Lessons We Have Learned in our First Year
Meet the Board of Directors
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In about the same amount of time that it takes for a mama elephant to give birth to her baby, PeacePal has grown from a small letter-writing project to a program that now includes 12 countries and more than 1,700 pen pals!