Help us reach 500,000 kids with our Peace Pals Global Exchange! Your generosity helps create a ripple of peace across the globe!
I liked doing the Peace Pals postcard project because I got to let out my inner self and just do what I'm best at - art work. It was also a great opportunity to show off my art. Peace to everyone!
Kendal S.
Age 11, 4th grade
Grass Valley, California
I love your Peace Pals idea and would think kids would love to participate--I know sharing this project with my grandchildren was an honor!! They may actually grow up owning the possibility of peace, and projects like this can only further that possibility.
Lynn K. Artist, Grandmother, volunteer
Shaker Hts, Ohio
Peace Pals
The Peace Pals Global Exchange is a cross-cultural exchange of art and messages of peace between students around the world.
Visit our Peace Pals Postcards section.
How it Works:
- Participating students will creatively express their desire for peace with personal art and share an acknowledging message on 6 x 8 inch postcards.
- Postcards are exchanged between students as heart-felt offerings of peace ~ strengthening connections of everyone involved.
- During the 2009/2010 school-year 10,000 students will be participating in the inaugural launch. Students in the San Francisco Bay Area will be partnered with an equivalent number of students in Kampala, Uganda and the Create Peace Project will facilitate the exchange.
- This project connects children across the world, across the US, within their schools and in their classroom by making art and taking peaceful positive action in a massive arts project together.
Why Peace Pals:
The Peace Pals Global Exchange is about connection. Connecting students to themselves, their creativity, their wisdom, and their heart. Connecting students to each other, in their classrooms, in their schools, and across continents as we bridge cultural, religious, and racial boundaries to inspire and enrich the lives of all participants.
Peace Pals gives students a platform from which to raise their voice for peace, acknowledge and honor each other, express themselves through their art and with words with the intention that the power of being peaceful and sharing ones self with another can create a ripple of kindness, love, and possibility felt by young people around the world.
Vision:
The Create Peace Project intends to include hundreds of thousands of kids in this on-going global peace project by branching the exchange between schools in countries on six continents in the years to come.
Goals for the Peace Pals Global Exchange include:
- Creating 200,000 Peace Pals connections in the 10/11 school year
- Involving schools from 10 countries around the world
- Publishing a book of the best finished works
- Displaying all art and messages on our web-site
Additional Information:
To learn more about how to get your school involved in the 2009/2010 Peace Pals Global Exchange contact Ross Holzman at info@createpeaceproject.org.