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Service Projects

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We believe that sustainable peace flows from personal and meaningful connections, and that these connections are strengthened when we are of service to each other. Service projects naturally evolve from our connections with friends across the world, based on local needs. Our two primary service projects are Stamp Out Malaria and Adopt a Classroom.

Stamp Out Malaria

In 2009 PeacePal students in the U.S. received letters from their friends in Ghana and Togo, West Africa describing experiences with malaria ranging from hospitalization to losing friends and family members to this devastating disease. That summer, PeacePal Program Directors in both countries were also hospitalized with malaria, reinforcing how widespread and serious this epidemic is. PeacePal participants in the U.S. began by researching malaria, which is little known here. Plans soon developed for a project to help their friends, and Stamp Out Malariawas born. Over the course of the 2010-2011 school year, dozens of students worked hundreds of hours to send thousands of bed nets to these two countries.  By May of 2011, PeacePal had raised $20,000 and was able to send 4,700 bednets to friends in Ghana and Togo.

A majority of PeacePal's international partners are located in Africa, where malaria is still the largest cause of death. Even in this age of advanced technology and medicines, the single most effective prevention for this devastating disease is a mosquito net, or bed net. In response to this, PeacePal has launched its service project, Stamp Out Malaria, to raise funds to buy bed nets for our friends in  West Africa. 

You can help support this inspiring initiative:                                   

  1. Visit our bed net donation page and make an online contribution.                                   

  2. Buy one of our beautiful handmade friendship bracelets made by Sanyork, Inc., a fair trade workshop in Peru, especially for PeacePal. They are $5 each, the cost of a bed net, and 100% of the funds raised with the sale of these bracelets will go toward the purchase of bed nets

  3. Start a Stamp Out Malaria group where you live, at school, with friends or family, at your church or community center. Contact us for details on how to get your group started.