Each year, many YMCAs and YMCA-YWCAs across Canada celebrate YMCA World Peace Week by dedicating a full week in November to explore peace from a personal, community and international perspective. This year’s Peace Week is being held November 18-25, 2006 and the theme is, “the power of peace…the power of people.”
YMCA Canada link for Peace Week (scroll down about 2 pages)
http://www.ymca.ca/eng_ycdaresources.htm
This is an excerpt from an email I received this week from Rana Farhaneh of the Cambridge YMCA, regarding what’s happening in
Cambridge for Peace Week.
Our activities start November 20 with the opening Ceremony at the Z beside Y and the peace mobile activities. Schools will be coming through the day and its open for public “Adult and children” from 6 -8. Peace mobile are interactive activities to explore peace and educational activities focus on the dimensions of peace from different perspectives.
Multi – faith Gathering on Nov 22 from 7:00 to 8:30 at the Islamic Center 1550 Dunbar Road beside Newfoundland club. Different faith will be represented to share with us peace and unity for the world nothing formal it is a Gathering every faith will talk about peace from the perspective of their religion.
Citizenship Court and Community Peacemaker Recognition Ceremony will be held on Nov 24 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm at the YMCA Gymnasium. It is open for public and their will refreshments on the side.
This link leads to a 109-page activity guide (in PDF format) from the YMCA Canada website.
http://www.ymca.ca/downloads/Peace-Week-Activity-Guide-06-Eng.pdf
What are you doing for Peace Week? Feel free to post a comment on the blog or email me at
peaceripples@gmail.com to let us know.
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