Peace in the schools
Every year since 2006, the Gandhi Alliance for Peace has collaborated with a different elementary school to bring ideas of peace and nonviolence into the children's learning. We provide books on peace and peacemakers; the children read and talk about Gandhi, other peacemakers, and the tools of nonviolence.
The donated books are selected by school representatives from a master list that includes some 40 volumes on Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Caeser Chavez, plus more general topics such as developing positive self-esteem and getting along with others.
The school then organizes a program or assembly on Gandhi and his teachings. Every school has creatively engaged the students in learning about peace! In Whittier Elementary School, for instance, the music teachers composed a song about Gandhi. The entire student body sang about him at their student-of-the-month assembly.
All of the children who participate each year are learning alternatives to violence!
Elementary schools have included Jackson, Whittier, Meadowlark, Moss, and Bennion in Salt Lake City; Eagle View and Myton in the Uinta Basin; and Pleasant Green in Magna.
Other partnerships have been forged with Salt Lake's Horizonte Instruction and Training Center for high school-age students; Salt Lake City's Urban Indian Center; and the Yap Public Library on the Micronesian Island of Yap.
The donated books are selected by school representatives from a master list that includes some 40 volumes on Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Caeser Chavez, plus more general topics such as developing positive self-esteem and getting along with others.
The school then organizes a program or assembly on Gandhi and his teachings. Every school has creatively engaged the students in learning about peace! In Whittier Elementary School, for instance, the music teachers composed a song about Gandhi. The entire student body sang about him at their student-of-the-month assembly.
All of the children who participate each year are learning alternatives to violence!
Elementary schools have included Jackson, Whittier, Meadowlark, Moss, and Bennion in Salt Lake City; Eagle View and Myton in the Uinta Basin; and Pleasant Green in Magna.
Other partnerships have been forged with Salt Lake's Horizonte Instruction and Training Center for high school-age students; Salt Lake City's Urban Indian Center; and the Yap Public Library on the Micronesian Island of Yap.
