PEACE MARATHON

PDP will select three projects from around the world to demonstrate how many individuals and
groups are working for peace. We will change these stories weekly, so stay in touch AND send us your recommendations.[Note: Listing of any organizations, individuals, groups, initiatives, or campaigns is not an endorsement of those individuals or projects.]

1-Boston-based Peacegames keeps the peace

Peacegames is a national Boston-based project that em,powers young choildren to solve problems without violence. With satellite projects in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, the partnership between PG and Boston's Cathedral Grammar School, an inner city school, helps students “create their own safe classrooms and communities”. An impact study reports that 84% of teachers state that Peacegames has improved students’ ability to achieve more peaceful approaches to school life. Read more at: www.peacegames.org/

2-A Thousand waves as one: Baha’i Faith most organized, diverse, and peace focused

The recent persecution of Baha’is in Iran in the midst of that nation’s current upheaval is making people ask the question-‘What’s the Baha’i Faith all about?” For information on this newest
world religion, go to: info.bahai.org
Click on ‘A New Vision for Humanity’s Future’ to learn more and study the principles and teachings of the Baha’i Faith and its Prophet-founder, Baha’u’llah. It suggests that our collective future depends upon achieving world unity, embraces “likely the most diverse organized body of people on the planet”, and a focuses on moral behavior and character development as indispensable to world peace.


3-Silverton Foundation plants seeds of social justice that lead to peace

Through U.S. and international grant making SF supports school readiness, transition to college and career, and promotes economic inclusion to foster community awareness and commitment to social enterprise. Groups funded include Citizen Schools, Literacy Coalition of Central Texas, and Boikarabelo Children's Village in South Africa. The latter provides social services and partial funding for the facility in support of educational programming at this village-based HIV\AIDS orphanage (funded through Keep A Child Alive of Brooklyn, NY www.keepachildalive.org). Visit their site at www.silvertonfoundation.org