2,500 Postcards have Arrived

When the idea for Peace Pals was first born, my friend Ken Masters and I sat down to discuss the objectives and goals of the project. It was really clear that two things needed to happen.

1) there needed to be an open loop: postcards, with their art and messages of peace, needed to be created by one person and delivered (or sent) to another. And…

2) it needed to be viral: as in, the project needed to have a self-perpetuating mechanism for on-going and continuous involvement of participants.

And so, Peace Pals began to take form. The idea was to have students in the U.S.A. create postcards for peace by making art and sharing their personal messages on the backs with words and then deliver their finished works to students in another country. The recipient students who received a postcard would then themselves created one that we would then deliver to students in anther location….as in Create Peace and Pay it Forward. In this way, we create an open loop with an on-going and potentially viral experience for anyone to get involved.

Peace Pals is about spreading peace using creativity student to student across the globe.

So the idea came to life, and the project got set in motion. My team and I personally worked with more than 1,500 Bay Area California students between September and January while sending another 2,000 plus postcards out to schools across the country.

Beautiful art was created and many of the postcards will soon be available for viewing on our web site here: https://createpeaceproject.org/peacepals

And so now, here I am in Kampala, Uganda with 2,500 plus postcards for peace, created by students from across the U.S. preparing to deliver them to students in schools here.

Thanks to All Students in these U.S. Participating Schools:

The Friends School, San Francisco, California

Claire Liliental Elementary, San Francisco, CA

Aptos Middle School, SF, CA

Everett Middle School, SF, CA

Eddison Charter Elementary, SF, CA

International Studies Academy, SF, CA

Willie Brown Elementary, SF, CA

St. Elizabeth’s High School, Oakland, CA

Harpeth Hall School, Nashville, Tennessee

St. Andrews School, Savannah, Georgia

Beaumont High School, Cleveland, Ohio

Emerson School, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Park Tudor School, Indianapolis, Indiana

Solebury School, New Hope, Pennsylvania

St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, Austin, Texas

The Kinkaid School, Houston, Texas

Coranado High School, San Diego, California

Menlo School, Menlo Park, California

Kenilworth Junior High School, Petaluma, California