posted Nov 11, 2011 1:34 PM by Sarah Gough
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November 8th, 2011 in Bhavnagar, India Play for Peace volunteer held a creative workshop designed with mixed teams of youth facilitators and children working together to create compelling stories and messages on a child right's topic. After creating their story line, they then created art props to use for when later telling their stories. Then each team collectively told the story/message that they wanted to tell. Some used quite a bit of drama which made it very fun and engaging and the stories were very informational.
This was used to demonstrate that life skills messages and lessons can be taught using various forms other than games. This also teaches them to be more creative themselves, plus empowers them to have a speaking part. The next challenge given was for them to continue to use and develop new ways to tell or teach other children and adults in their communities promoting their voice!
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posted Oct 25, 2011 4:06 PM by Sarah Gough
Blue Ridge High School students in Central Illinois had their first Play for Peace training on Oct. 18th, 2011. They have a enthusiastic group of students ready to get started! Mentor Leslie expects them to be playground-ready in a few weeks. Welcome Blue Ridge students to the Play for Peace Community! |
posted Oct 25, 2011 3:44 PM by Sarah Gough
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updated Oct 26, 2011 1:04 PM
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From 8.30 AM to 16h30 PM in 10.01.2011 at Trieu Thi Trinh elementary school, A New Day Club organized a training session for 20 participants. We spent about 1 month to prepare everything: not only fundraising, logistics but also contents. 6 Club members led 24 collaborative games and shared important core - value messages through games. After the training, A New Day Club got many responses from participants, such as " I understand that everything happened have it own goal so I remind myself to think carefully about my action".
Also through 8 hours working, we understood more about each other. We were
very motivated after this event. For we always try our best to do all things for
the development of our community by our capabilities.
About 'core - values"; we shared 3 characteristics:
- Be educational,
After training session; the participants recognized
some messages such as " We should think carefully before we act"; "We should
do everything when attaching at least a meaning"...
- Be humanitarian.
After training session; they felt happy, cheerful and had motivation to live
usefully. Each of them also connected with others closely.
- Be safe
After training session; they understand that everybody together took part in
game: not lose, not punish. All participants together became winners.
Those are 3 characteristics we wish to share to community. And happily, the
participants received them after at all.
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posted Sep 26, 2011 4:04 PM by Sarah Gough
On September 22 & 23, 2011 in Zhadiya, South Gujarat 29 more adults who work for child and women's rights in rural and tribal areas gathered to experience the power of Play for Peace activities, team-building and leadership development. There was great excitement and readiness to take these skills to their community and try them out! Play for Peace Volunteer Kathryn Kylee and Shaishav led a great workshop. |
posted Sep 23, 2011 4:13 PM by Sarah Gough
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updated Sep 24, 2011 7:47 AM
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Rita, Hung, Tien, Thu, Khoa and Phung are 6 young people from an organization they founded called "A New Day". After years of leading outdoor camp activities with Children with HIV and orphans, they found cooperative play to be the most beneficial for the health and well-being of their young friends.
Rita says in her country "games are only for entertainment and players are punished if they don't play well." Competitive games means someone always loses and always is punished. According to Rita, "this limits the meaning of play. I believe this is very dangerous for human development and for connecting communities." Their mentor, Ms Huong, is a social worker and dedicated to bringing Play for Peace methodology to other nonprofits and social workers for the benefit of the Vietnamese people.
Welcome this dynamic new Play for Peace Club to our community!
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posted Sep 19, 2011 4:58 PM by Sarah Gough
posted Sep 11, 2011 7:30 PM by Sarah Gough
Award-winning teacher Mark Paye has changed the lives of hundreds of youth and will be leading the Play for Peace Club again this year in the diverse Chicago Public School of Roberto Clemente Comunity Academy. Check out a news story about Mark when his work filmed last school year by WGNTV.
Several new Play for Peace Clubs are being started all over the State of Illinois as the school year warms up! We will keep you posted about all of our new efforts... |
posted Sep 6, 2011 4:55 PM by Sarah Gough
 In a tribal village 1 hour north of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India 30 dedicated community workers and volunteers gathered for a 2 day workshop on August 24 & 25, 2011. The goal? Transforming Neighborhoods by teaching community facilitators to use Play for Peace in working with the impoverished children in their communities. Local facilitators were trained how to empower children and teach important life skills lessons, as well as combat conflict over extreme differences in these communities, by demonstrating the power of experiential learning and strong debriefing/reflection processes. Here is what the participants said about the workshop:
"I have never seen this type of training before, and this will be so important in my community in working with our children".
"I have learned so much from this process, and want to learn more".
"This is such an important process in bringing together communities with such diversity as ours. It will help us in our work tremendously." |
posted Sep 6, 2011 6:31 AM by Sarah Gough
 Christina Hegele found us through a posting on the United Nations Volunteers online website. Christina, author of an award-winning travel blog, has supported Play for Peace by advising, researching and maintaining our online and social media presence even while moving from Germany to Canada to London and travelling extensively in the span of 6 months! With such a wonderful experience with Christina we asked more volunteers from the UNV to join us including Pawan Sankhala, a student from the University of British Columbia in Canada, specializing in web analysis and integrated marketing services. His suggestions help keep this site fresh and exciting to visit!
In the coming months you will be meeting a new group of dedicated volunteers who will serve as bloggers from Africa, Europe, Asia and the U.S. interviewing and capturing stories and learning from our Play for Peace programming sites. Our first volunteer blog by Filip Tucek is up and we can't wait to see our Play for Peace Community grow and connect thanks to these young people committed to making Play for Peace a thriving global movement for peace. |
posted Aug 31, 2011 6:32 PM by Sarah Gough
Play for Peace Trainer Andres Armas not only supports new Play for Peace Clubs that are sprouting up all over the country (with new requests for the fall from every country in Central America) this Sunday, August 28th, 2011 he held a second meeting for the youth in his rural community of Los Planes, Palencia where he mentors his own Play for Peace Club. "Even though I have been volunteering for Play for Peace for over 10 years, as a trainer I need to understand the needs and experiences of the youth right now. When a mentor has an issue or question I can support them, not only as a trainer, but as a fellow mentor.: It's my way of walking my talk."
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