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      • Gandhi Birthday Celebration
      • Peace Award
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      • Annual Essay Contest
      • Other Projects
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    • 21 Simple Rules to Live By
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2018 Book Donation to Elementary Schools
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From: Crane, Keri
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2018 3:28 PM
To: dsawyer@xmission.com   Subject: Gandhi Alliance for Peace book.
  Deb,:    Thank you so much for donating the beautiful book, Her Right Foot.  The illustrations are lovely and the story is wonderfully told. We have such a diverse population at our school it is the perfect addition to our Gandhi shelf.       Thanks,
Keri Crane, Librarian James E. Moss Elementary

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Peace in the schools

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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.

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