34 Local Youth Learn from Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize Winner from Argentina 34 Local Youth Learn from
Feb 21, 2008 10:40 PM Filed in: News | PeaceJam
Conferences
28 local high school youth, along with six Solano
Community College students and eight chaperones will
be attending the PeaceJam Northwest Regional
Conference
this weekend, February 22-24
at Oregon State University in Corvallis,
Oregon. Argentinean
Nobel Peace Laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel will be
the three-day conference speaker.
Students from ten local high schools and youth organizations as well as Solano Community College will attend. They will represent all of the high schools in Vacaville: Vacaville High School, Will C. Wood High School, Buckingham Charter School and Country High School as well as the Boys & Girls Club in Vacaville. Vanden High School, Armijo High School, and Angelo Rodriguez High School from Fairfield will be represented as well as Liberty High School in Benicia and Peoples High School in Vallejo.
Five students in the PeaceJam Club at Solano Community College who serve as PeaceJam mentors at the Solano Juvenile Detention Facility will also be going.
Students will spend an action-packed weekend learning how Esquivel works to defend human rights in Argentina and reduce violence in Latin America. They will also learn about social and economic rights, meet new friends, practice nonviolent/compassionate communication, do community service and personally share their local “Peace Projects” with Esquivel.
The public is invited to learn more about PeaceJam and hear students share their conference experiences at a PeaceJam Reception on Tuesday, February 26 at 7:00 pm at Solano Community College, Fairfield, Rooms 402 and 403.
PeaceJam is an educational nonprofit in which twelve (12) Nobel Peace Laureates work directly with youth at weekend conferences to inspire and instill their experience, wisdom, skills and personal friendship in students around the world
Over 500,000 youth, worldwide, have attended PeaceJam conferences with these Nobel Peace Laureates in the past 10 years. Students are inspired! Over 200,000 community service projects have resulted from these conferences as youth learn “they really can make a difference.”
PeaceJam Nobel Peace Laureates include: The Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Rigoberta Menchu, Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan McGuire and many more. See www.peacejam.org for more information.
PeaceJam Solano, www.PeaceJamSolano.org, is a project of Youth Peace Initiative, Inc., a local 501(c) 3 non-profit organization working with our county’s youth. Ten PeaceJam clubs are now meeting weekly at Vacaville High School, Will C. Wood, Country High School, Vanden Highs School, Rodriguez High School, Armijo High School, Liberty High School, Peoples High School and The Boys and Girls Club on Alamo in Vacaville and at Solano Community College. A PeaceJam club is set to begin soon at Buckingham Charter School.
All high school students are invited to participate. If there is not a PeaceJam club at your school or youth organization yet, please help start one and call Sherilyn Henry at 707-208-0853. We hope to inspire every high school student that they really can make a difference and to give them the opportunity to learn the skills necessary to be a person of peace.
PeaceJam volunteers, financial donors and business sponsors are urgently needed to continue the rapid growth of PeaceJam Solano. With more people involved, we can begin PeaceJam clubs in our county Junior Highs were it is so desperately needed.
Students from ten local high schools and youth organizations as well as Solano Community College will attend. They will represent all of the high schools in Vacaville: Vacaville High School, Will C. Wood High School, Buckingham Charter School and Country High School as well as the Boys & Girls Club in Vacaville. Vanden High School, Armijo High School, and Angelo Rodriguez High School from Fairfield will be represented as well as Liberty High School in Benicia and Peoples High School in Vallejo.
Five students in the PeaceJam Club at Solano Community College who serve as PeaceJam mentors at the Solano Juvenile Detention Facility will also be going.
Students will spend an action-packed weekend learning how Esquivel works to defend human rights in Argentina and reduce violence in Latin America. They will also learn about social and economic rights, meet new friends, practice nonviolent/compassionate communication, do community service and personally share their local “Peace Projects” with Esquivel.
The public is invited to learn more about PeaceJam and hear students share their conference experiences at a PeaceJam Reception on Tuesday, February 26 at 7:00 pm at Solano Community College, Fairfield, Rooms 402 and 403.
PeaceJam is an educational nonprofit in which twelve (12) Nobel Peace Laureates work directly with youth at weekend conferences to inspire and instill their experience, wisdom, skills and personal friendship in students around the world
Over 500,000 youth, worldwide, have attended PeaceJam conferences with these Nobel Peace Laureates in the past 10 years. Students are inspired! Over 200,000 community service projects have resulted from these conferences as youth learn “they really can make a difference.”
PeaceJam Nobel Peace Laureates include: The Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Rigoberta Menchu, Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan McGuire and many more. See www.peacejam.org for more information.
PeaceJam Solano, www.PeaceJamSolano.org, is a project of Youth Peace Initiative, Inc., a local 501(c) 3 non-profit organization working with our county’s youth. Ten PeaceJam clubs are now meeting weekly at Vacaville High School, Will C. Wood, Country High School, Vanden Highs School, Rodriguez High School, Armijo High School, Liberty High School, Peoples High School and The Boys and Girls Club on Alamo in Vacaville and at Solano Community College. A PeaceJam club is set to begin soon at Buckingham Charter School.
All high school students are invited to participate. If there is not a PeaceJam club at your school or youth organization yet, please help start one and call Sherilyn Henry at 707-208-0853. We hope to inspire every high school student that they really can make a difference and to give them the opportunity to learn the skills necessary to be a person of peace.
PeaceJam volunteers, financial donors and business sponsors are urgently needed to continue the rapid growth of PeaceJam Solano. With more people involved, we can begin PeaceJam clubs in our county Junior Highs were it is so desperately needed.