http://serviceforpeace.org en Fri, 18 Nov 2011 9:12:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=262 Have you ordered your holiday cards yet? We have the *perfect* solution that will save you 50% or more off store-bought cards, and 30% of what you pay will go to support our Communities of Peace around the world! We are offering you the opportunity to send customized greeting cards this holiday season to your friends and family from the comfort of your homes while supporting us. You’ll save time and money and generate much needed support for SFP. Sounds too good to be true but it is! http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=262 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 7:23:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=256 I have the most special honor of introducing myself as the new International Program Director for Service For Peace. Many of you know me personally and those who do probably know me for my work in Latin America and the Caribbean. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=256 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 8:15:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=255 Service For Peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo will lead the celebration of the International Day of Peace in the City of Matadi on September 20 and 21, 2011, through conflict resolution conferences and social service activities. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=255 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 8:46:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=253 20 volunteers from the US, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala improved the educational facilities of two schools in Nicaragua and Honduras providing 200 children with brighter and more adequate learning environments. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=253 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 9:24:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=252 The Tragedy: "A husband and wife make the difficult choice to leave their two children in the 'forest'. They could not bear the thought of their children dying in front of their eyes and they did not want their children to sense that they (the parents) were dying". http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=252 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 9:21:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=250 During July, 2o South Korean volunteers and 18 Kenyan volunteers worked together to improve the library and the green farm of the Children's Garden Home and School in the suburban areas of Dagoretti, Nairobi in Kenya, in order to create useful spaces for knowledge access and community agriculture for 300 children and youth. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=250 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 7:36:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=247 Service For Peace will be hosting a two-week Global PeaceMakers (GPM) program in Kenya from June 29 to July 12. This international service project that our roject will take place in our community of peace "Children's Garden," a home and school for children without parents just outside Nairobi, and focus on improving the DreamCatcher Library that our volunteers set up earlier this year and building a greenhouse in the kids' garden. This will be yet another aspect of community development by creating food security and increasing the nutrition that children receive, so that they can learn better. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=247 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 6:34:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=246 For two weeks this May, 10 volunteers from Xavier University in Cincinatti together with 3 Guatemalan volunteers completed an Alternative Break program through Service For Peace, helping to improve the educational facilities of two schools in Guatemala, both within partner Communities of Peace. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=246 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 6:25:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=238 Service For Peace received a Shared Social Responsibility recognition from the Ministry of Education of the Dominican Republic for its work to improve the educational infrastructure in the country. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=238 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:23:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=237 As international board chairman, I had the opportunity to share my understanding about what makes Service For Peace distinct in its development thus far and unique in its evolving role over the next ten years. My conclusion and projection was that by 2022, the world may be informed that the NGO Service For Peace will be granted a NOBEL PRIZE for "facilitating, enabling and leading widely inclusive and diverse participation in sustainable peace, prosperity and collaborative living that embraces human progress in environmental well-being over comparable manipulative material advantage and impoverished disadvantage." http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=237 Tue, 31 May 2011 10:54:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=236 Join this year's GPM program in Ghana,July 8-21, and help renovate a school and build a classroom. Program cost including internal transportation, room & board: $550 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=236 Fri, 27 May 2011 10:35:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=235 In our 10 years of community service work, we have empowered, Service For Peace has empowered thousands of youth and adults to be agents of change in their communities and other disadvantaged communities around the world. Now is time to say thank you to our international volunteer network presenting the winners of the National Volunteer Week Contest. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=235 Mon, 09 May 2011 10:52:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=233 Service For Peace invites you to participate for free in a Global PeaceMakers program this summer (July, 2011) in Honduras and Nicaragua. All you have to do is recruit 5 friends to join the program with you! Here are the steps you need to take towards your free or discounted participation... http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=233 Mon, 02 May 2011 11:06:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=231 Would you like to raise funds and promote Service For Peace by doing something you already do on a regular basis? We are excited to announce our partnership with SendOutCards (SOC), ranked one of the "Top 500" fastest growing businesses in the USA by Inc. Magazine. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=231 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 5:01:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=230 Only 3 days left till the closing of the contest in honor of National Volunteer Week. Please share your volunteer story with us in a short essay. You will surely inspire someone to become a volunteer and maybe you will win an iPod Shuffle or a digital camera. Deadline is April 30! http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=230 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 9:58:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=229 This year’s Global Youth Service Day (GYSD), a global campaign that aims to bring together youth and children to serve in their neighborhoods was marked on April 15-17. Service For Peace in Kenya marked the event focusing on the initiation of a community garden in Kawangware, joined by the children at the home and volunteers. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=229 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 7:24:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=228 In honor of Global Youth Service Day (April 22-24, 2011), hundreds of volunteers in Latin America and the Caribbean get ready to serve their communities with Service For Peace. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=228 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 8:14:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=226 Share your special memories of serving with your friends, family and the world in celebration of this year's National Volunteer Week by taking part in the SFP contest! Win a digital camera or other cool prizes by writing a 500-word essay of your favorite volunteer story with us or sending us a cool photo that you took while serving with us. Find out here how to participate. Contest ends April 30! http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=226 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 1:30:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=221 In February more than 1,500 people participated in a 5-kilometer Walk for Peace, which was led by SFP in Brazil in partnership with the Rotary Club of Gama in Brasilia. The event was designed to inspire reflection about the meaning of peace and the responsibilities we have as active citizens to create communities of peace at the local, regional and international level. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=221 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:00:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=220 The full extent of the death and damage caused by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan are still being calculated but the urgent need for assistance was clear from the moment the news first broke. SFP’s Korean and Japanese offices were quickly in communication with each other and a plan of action began to take shape. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=220 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:00:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=219 From March 6 to 12, Children’s Garden Home and School was abuzz with activities that included renovations, painting, landscaping, reading and play as part of the Global PeaceMaker (GPM) Program coordinated by the Service For Peace team in Kenya. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=219 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:00:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=218 During January and February, Service For Peace in Brazil worked to build capacity within their Communities of Peace in Alto Paraiso and Alagado da Suzana. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=218 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:00:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=217 During January of 2011, local Service For Peace volunteers in Nicaragua remodeled the Paul Harris Elementary School in partnership with the Rotary Club of Managua-Tiscapa. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=217 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:00:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=216 Since the March 9 earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Honshu, Japan our Service For Peace office in Korea has been in constant communication with contacts in Japan researching relief and recovery needs in affected areas. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=216 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:00:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=213 A team of Kenyan university students, whom are volunteers in Service For Peace in Nairobi are participating in the Students for Innovation Competition (SFI) which is supported by Dell and it is running to win $100,000, with additional benefits for the first 100 semi-finalists. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=213 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:00:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=212 Service For Peace-Kenya volunteers rolled out a Book Drive exercise themed ‘Give a Book, Catch a Dream’ aimed at collecting 5000 books, journals, magazines, storybooks, newspapers, comics and any other form of literature that would be beneficial to young developing minds. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=212 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:00:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=203 Service For Peace in Kenya will be hosting a five day Spring Global Peacemakers (GPM) program March 6-12, 2011. The GPM will focus on improving the educational infrastructure for a Children’s Home and School located in a community in Nairobi. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=203 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:00:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=200 Yesterday, all of us in Service For Peace were saddened by the news of the passing of a great man of peace, Sargent Shriver. It was Shriver who, as a senior official in the Kennedy Administration, created the Peace Corps, largely in response to the global conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=200 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:00:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=199 During the 2010 Christmas season, Service For Peace in Brazil, in partnership with the Food Supply Center of the Federal District gave hope and happiness to about 2,400 children and adults living in poverty in the capital Brasilia. For this Christmas Solidarity Campaign, SFP collected more than 400 toys and one ton of food supplies. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=199 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:00:00 -0700 http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=198 Service For Peace in Louisville, Kentucky, with Outback Steak House, Marks Feed Store, Save-A-Lot stores and the Louisville Fire Department are partnering together for the Fifth Annual Christmas Angel Campaign, which will distribute food baskets to vulnerable families in the city. http://serviceforpeace.org/newsview.php?id=198