Quick Facts
- There are nearly 3,000 Peace Pals in the U.S. and 16 countries around the world!
- September 21 is the International Day of Peace.
- Project PeacePal is made possible only through your support.
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Newsletter - Fall 2009
PeacePal and Creativity for Peace
The start of a life-long friendship
PeacePals throughout the world have been separated by war, poverty and tens of thousands of miles, but 28 new PeacePals got to put aside their pens and paper to meet face to face for the first time at a special summer camp this August.
Creativity for Peace, nestled in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains north of Santa Fe, is a 40-acre camp that strives to put an end the conflict in Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories. The camp was founded in 2003 and strives to develop the region's next generation of female leaders and peacemakers.
Every year the three-week-long camp hosts between 14 and 20 girls-half from Israel and half from Palestine. The teenage girls come together to engage in dialogue, art projects, team-building activities, and, perhaps most important, fun, to break down each girl's perceptions of one another as enemy combatants.
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Alex, left, and Shirit are two PeacePals who have had the rare opportunity to meet face-to-face.
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Celebrate the International Day of Peace
| PeacePal is throwing a party at the Harwood Art Center and you're invited |
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Peace is a Verb at the Harwood Art Center. Come celebrate the 2009 International Day of Peace and learn more about creating peace in your life. The Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice, Project PeacePal, and Roots & Shoots Four Corners has partnered to celebrate peace and all are welcome.
"This event is an opportunity to help build a strong peace community in Albuquerque," Sarah Wilkinson, founder of Project PeacePal said. "More importantly it's an opportunity to ignite excitement in our youth to become an active part of the global peace community."
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PeacePal Goes to Guatemala
A meesage from Board of Directors President Maggie Seibert
Flushing toilets, lights, paved roads, roofs, cars, and lawns all seem pretty typical, common and average. In my recent ten-day trip to Guatemala it became instantly apparent that worldwide these things are not necessarily typical, common and average. With 75% of the Guatemalan population at or below the poverty line I would go so far as to call these things relatively uncommon. What was common was how people wanted to meet us and how we wanted to meet them too. Read More >>
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Meet the New Staff
Project PeacePal has a brand new staff. The organization is growing by leaps and bounds and with your continued support will continue to grow. With more than 3,000 students in PeacePal across 16 countries the staffers couldn't have come at a more needed time. Two great organizations have provided the new staffers to PeacePal with the goal of allowing the organization to continue to grow to sustainable self-sufficiency. Our heartfelt thanks go out to the federal Volunteers in Service To America program and University of New Mexico for their support. Read More >>
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