Peacejam approaches

Hey everyone, we only have 2 weeks until the Peacejam Conference... and we are all getting really excited. Over the summer our group of young people have been working hard to get ready. They have put together a series of workshops that we will be running on the theme of Poverty and Violence in South LA. On September the 11th we will be inviting up to 100 young people from he Conference to join us and learn a bit more about what life is like in this part of LA. A big thanks to everyone from the Urban Oasis Collaborative and elsewhere who have helped prepare all the workshops,

wish us luck :)

Peacejam

As you can see from the photos below we had the first meeting of the young people who are going to plan and deliver the service learning project we are doing as part of the Peacejam conference. It was definitely a great start and I am excited by what these young people can and will acheive

For Francisco

First meeting (2)

Youth Team meets for the first time

Last Wednesday We finally met for the Peace Jam meeting. I felt like it went pretty good. However, when it comes to people coming together to help out the community I try not to have really high expectations from people. But I must admit I was really impressed with the way everybody came together. By the end of the meeting, I felt like we all had accomplished. Awareness was spread, opinions were heard, people came together. It was a pretty successful couple of hours.

Juan P