We will be one of the top ten
providers of student peacemaking
solutions for the greatest
threats facing humanity by 2019.
Our missions:
#1
Help break the cycle of poverty
by developing 21st
century leaders.
#2
Provide young people and adults
with life changing experiences
by involving them in solutions
to the root causes of poverty.
#3
Help the people we serve and our
members transform from a world
based on greed, pain and cruelty
to a world based on generosity,
compassion and love.
What Makes Us Unique
+ Reaching millions of
people, including school
children, on the root causes
of poverty.
+ Providing unique service
learning opportunities to
help disabled children,
mothers struggling to feed
their children, and
delivering emergency aid.
+ Teaching with acts of
kindness and education why
we must work for peace,
protect the environment, and
eliminate nuclear weapons.
+ Helping students have
leadership and global
stewardship experiences
which change and save lives.
+ A committed 5 person
full-time staff and $902,720
in volunteered time.
+ Implementing programs that
each year build upon the
prior year to produce a
world-class suite of teach
peace education.
Endorsements
I want to thank you for
allowing me to join the Teach
Peace trip to Liberia and
Ethiopia in 2010. It is one of
the most rewarding experiences
of my lifetime of 66 years, both
professionally as a nurse and
personally. It is indeed a life
changing event. Lolita
Samson (Teach Peace medical
clinic lead nurse)
Teach Peace is an amazing
organization that allows
volunteers to deepen their
knowledge about the world and
inspires them to work toward
change. Going to Liberia with
Teach Peace was beyond amazing.
My perspective on the world and
life has changed in a very
positive way. An experience like
this cannot be explained in a
matter of words, it is not until
you witness Liberia with Teach
Peace that you truly understand
the amazingness of this
organization. The people you
meet will change your life. I
can't wait to go back.
Carmen Cueto (Student leader of
the scholarship program)
Never before have I ever been
so inspired by such an amazing
group of people. I was lucky to
spend valuable time with
spirited and bright children.
They taught me more than I have
ever learned in a classroom. My
experience opened my eyes and
changed my perspective on life,
not only while in Africa. I
never believed that in such a
short period of time the entire
way I live could be so greatly
impacted. I can't wait to return
and continue to grow as a
person. Renee Chiang
(Student leader of the livestock
delivery and model village
education program)
My visit to the Liberia
Mission and surrounding villages
demonstrated how providing
people with basic opportunities
can help break the cycle of
extreme poverty and instill a
sense of dignity and hope for a
better future. This experience
as a Teach Peace volunteer was
truly an education that opened
my eyes and warmed my heart more
than I could have ever imagined!
Bob Perkins (Leader for the
solar cooking project and team
member for the clean water
project plus model village
program)
It was truly an amazing, eye
opening experience that has
changed my life. I am extremely
blessed to have been a part of
this mission and look forward to
future participation. Kerri
Turmenne (Team nurse for the
Special Ambassador program and
field medical clinic)
I am so thankful that I
had the opportunity to go to
Liberia with the Teach Peace
organization. The trip was
so well organized that we
were able to participate in
multiple worthwhile
projects, including a
medical mission, delivery of
wheelchairs, delivery of
seeds and animals, and
activities with the children
in a short period of time.
The trip far exceeded my
expectations from spiritual,
educational and experiential
perspectives and I look
forward to working with this
organization in the future.
Kathy Duffy (Leader orphans
and poor children
activities)
I recently had the chance to
see firsthand the work that
Teach Peace is doing with people
in Liberia. I was truly
impressed by the love and
dignity this organization
shows to the poorest of God's
children while attending to
their most basic needs for food,
water, and education. I am
humbled to have had a tiny part
in their astoundingly good
works. Barbara Pawlikowski
(Team photographer)
Recently I participated in a
volunteer trip hosted by "Teach
Peace" and David
Dionisi. The trip was to two of
the very poorest countries in
Africa: Liberia (in West Africa
and Ethiopia in Eastern
Africa). We participated in
providing several types of
assistance, such as "seed stock"
consisting of goats, chickens,
and vegetable seeds, emergency
food, scholarships, medicine and
medical check-ups.
Teach Peace has
a very important on-the-ground
program in Liberia to assist
disabled children living in
rural areas. These children and
their extremely poverty-stricken
families are in need of food and
the most basic of necessities. I
am an "almost Senior Citizen",
however, we had a majority of
women and men who were
college-age on this trip. Many
of the Teach
Peace young people experienced a real
eye-opener in providing service
to such poverty-stricken
disabled youngsters. Everyone
was fortunate to learn about
these two countries and felt
rewarded that we were able to
help so many people.
Thank you
Teach Peace for
this opportunity! Joan
Fabiano (Team member on eight
teams)
Fans of Peace
Teach Peace is one of the
non-profits that Fans of
Peace selected to benefit
from the Fans of Peace
purchases (see
www.fansofpeace.com).
Money & Peace
For years Teach Peace has been
helping people see the
connection between the global
monetary system and war.
Click here to view Damon
Vrabel's video classes
explaining why everyone needs to
understand money.
A Big Smile
The Portable North Pole has a
fantastic personalize message
for children.
Click here to send a
personalized that will bring big
smiles this Christmas.
Our innovative and
upbeat work to teach
peace with acts of
kindness
is literally
changing and saving
lives.
"If your plan is
for one year, plant
rice. If your plan
is for ten years,
plant trees. If your
plan is for one
hundred years,
educate children."
Confucius
Dr. Tom King summed
up our work with
"It's
as though America
received a heart
transplant, its new
heart installed in
Davis, California,
and given a name:
Teach Peace."
This summary of 2010
activities and our
plans for 2011
explains how we are
on our way to
becoming a leading
provider of peace
education.
We
guaranteed a smile
when you watch the
below.
Invest in
education
Our approach is to
be for something
positive instead of
focusing only on
problems. By
delivering acts of
kindness we show the
path to a more
peaceful world.
We deliver all our
services on less
than what it costs
taxpayers to keep a
single soldier in
Iraq for a few
months.
Teach Peace has
achieved success
because of over
20,000 hours of
donated time and
just over $400,000
in donations since
we started 5 years
ago. Over 95% of
donations are spent
on delivering
programs.
Donations to Teach
Peace are great
investments. At
Teach Peace there
are no executives
making large amounts
of money, in fact,
the total amount
paid to Teach Peace
presidents over the
last five years is
$0. The total value
of our acts of
kindness over the
last 5 years is
priceless (how do we
place a value on a
single life saved?)
Donations to reach
students in the
classroom are
greatly needed. Most
donations made are
to support needs in
Africa and teaching
peace to students in
the U.S. is a small
percentage of
current
donations. Consider
making a donation to
help us deliver
peace education.
We greatly
appreciate the
donations that we
received in 2010
from 361 people.
Donations are
tax-deductible and
to donate $1 or
more,
click here.
Peacemaking in
action
Uriah
receives his
first
wheelchair!
Erica Dewan, a high
school student,
helped children in
Liberia receive
wheelchairs. Teach
Peace staff members
Martha and Dolley
plus the child's
friends and family
are all smiles. The
universal joy in
this photo makes it
our signature 2010
photo.
Teach Peace
students and adult
volunteers get
involved in solving
real-world problems.
The experience of
working in a field
medical clinic,
setting up
sustainable
micro-businesses,
delivering clean
water systems,
teaching global
stewardship, or
helping people feed
their children with
agriculture
education is life
changing.
Carmen Cueto,
Lolita
Samson, Dr.
Brian Chan,
Lauren Payne
and Renee
Chiang led
the 2010
Liberia
field
medical
clinic.
Donations to Teach Peace
help us pay for medical
supplies, trip advance
work, and volunteer
coordination.
Special
Ambassadors
Teach Peace's acts of
kindness include helping
children with special
needs live with dignity.
We cared for 68
Liberian children in
2010 with the Special
Ambassadors program.
Some of the children are
blind, deaf, unable to
walk, and afflicted with
a range of other
disablilities.
The country of Liberia
has no safety net for
the poor, and the
disabled suffer from the
additional burden of
being believed to be
witches. As hard as it
is to believe, many
Liberians believe a
disabled child can
transform at night into
an owl. When a baby dies
in some African
countries, people will
sometimes blame the owl
and then seek a disabled
child for revenge.
To help you appreciate
the importance of
helping these very
special children, we
provide information
about 5 of the 68
children in the Special
Ambassadors program.
Uriah
Uriah's disability has
existed since birth. At
the time, no hospitals
were available before or
after his birth due to
the civil war. As a
result, he had never
been seen by a Doctor.
His limbs are severely
contractured and he
spent most of his days
lying or sitting on an
old mat. In April,
Uriah's hut caught on
fire. Uriah and his
parents managed to get
out with only minor
burns. His grandmother,
who was his primary
caregiver, died in the
fire. Teach Peace staff
members were able to
provide Uriah and his
family with such
necessities as a
mattress, food, towels,
clothes, soaps, and many
other basics. A
visiting doctor examined
Uriah and provided him
with much needed
medicine and vitamins.
In July, a specialized
wheelchair was delivered
to Uriah, which got him
off the ground and
allowed him to be mobile
for the first time in
his fifteen years of
life. All thanks to
generous donor support!
Rafic
Rafic has club feet and
years ago received
surgery for spina
bifida. Because of some
problem during the
surgery, his bladder was
injured and a tube was
inserted into his
abdomen for the drainage
of urine leaving him
constantly incontinent.
Earlier this year he
began to hemorrhage from
the abdominal tube. Not
knowing what to do
Rafic's friend contacted
Teach Peace Special
Ambassador team leader
Dolley Gurley. She was
told there was a young
man bleeding terribly.
Dolley took Rafic to a
clinic where he received
three pints of blood.
For months Rafic
continued to bleed and
have transfusions. Teach
Peace tried to get him
an appointment on the
Mercy Ship but they were
only taking care of
people with eye
problems. No one seemed
to know what to do for
him. Ultimately, Teach
Peace's Kevin Rockensies
was able to reach a
surgeon at Liberia's
Firestone Hospital. The
surgeon told Kevin to
have Dolley bring the
young man over for
extensive tests. Rafic
was treated with
medications for months
and finally the bleeding
stopped. Without Teach
Peace's hard working
team, Rafic would be
dead today. A few weeks
ago Rafic inquired if
Teach Peace could help
him attend school. He
only completed 10 grades
and he would love to get
his high school diploma.
We are now working to
help Rafic achieve his
dream of attending
school.
Pauline
Pauline is a 16 year old
girl who has been unable
to walk since
she developed Polio six
years ago. Since that
time, she has moved by
walking on her knees and
hands resulting in
severe damage to her
kneecaps as can be seen
in the photo on the
right. In addition to
food and a mosquito net,
in July Teach Peace
provided her with her
first
wheelchair. Pauline is
now attending school at
the Patrick S. Jallah
Elementary School where
she is attending classes
for the first time in
many years.
Saah
Saah is nine years old
and prior to this year
he had never seen a
doctor. From what his
parents say, at a young
age Saah developed a
high fever and, because
of the civil war, there
was no one to help.
Today, he has a
barrel-shaped chest and
a severe curvature of
the spine. Despite
being 9 years old, Saah
is only 3 feet tall.
Through the generosity
of Teach Peace donors,
we have been able to
provide him with food,
clothing, medical
treatment, and have
enrolled him in Mother
Artis Solid Learning
School where he is in
the Kindergarten class.
Victoria
Victoria was only a few
years old when she was
first brought to Sister
Sponsa Beltran's
rehabilitation center in
the mid-1980's. Over
the years, Victoria
learned to walk using
crutches and braces.
Victoria expressed
interest in going to
college to get an
Associates degree and
possibly a Bachelor's so
that she may better
herself and then be able
to help her fellow
handicaps. Today, at 30
years of age and thanks
to Teach Peace
donations, Victoria
attends Stella Maris
Polytechnical College in
Monrovia where she will
complete her Associates
degree in Management
next semester. When she
is not studying, she has
been taking care of her
80 year old mother. It
is our hope that once
Victoria completes her
Associate's Degree she
will assist the Special
Ambassadors team.
There are more children
waiting for someone to
help them be part of the
Special Ambassador
program. To learn more
about helping the
disabled live with
dignity,
click here.
Green Dignity
Global
stewardship
education and
training helps
students learn about
sustainable living
and how to make
smart choices.
For very young
children, a Teach
Peace student and
lifetime
credentialed teacher
developed an
exciting program
based on Dr. Seuss
books.
The Green Dignity
program is global
stewardship in
action that
"recycles a smile."
The name of the
micro-business is
Green Dignity
because we replace
plastic bags with
reusable bags and in
the process generate
profits to enable
orphans to live with
dignity.
Our first
international
implementation
of the Dr. Seuss
program was in
Indonesia.
Students at two
middle schools
learned about
caring for the
environment
and created a
micro-business
called Green
Dignity. The
students sold
over 100 Green
Dignity bags in
the last two
weeks in
November.
As part of our
objective of being a
leading provider of
peace education, we
will work to bring
the Green Dignity
program to schools
around the world.
Please help us
expand Green Dignity
by encouraging a
teacher or principal
to hire us to
deliver our global
stewardship
workshop.
For more information
about the Green
Dignity program,
click here.
2011 Success Plan
In our 2011 Success
Plan fund raising is
critical to enable
us
to deliver student-led
acts of kindness.
Click here or on
the below picture
to see 2011
deliverables or
learn about
deliverables going
back to our first
year.
Dates To Remember
December 27th for
2010 Tax Deductions
Donations received
by us by December
27th will result in
a 2010 tax deduction
letter sent in
January. Year-end is
also an excellent
time to update
important documents
and include Teach
Peace in estate
plans.
In the United
States, Mother's Day
was created in 1870
by Julia Ward Howe
as Mother's Day for
Peace for mothers
whose sons had
fought or died in
the Civil War to
teach peace.
Teach Peace sends
educational cards as
part of our ongoing
education efforts.
In 2011, Mother's
Day is on May 8th.
This means all
requests for us to
send paper Mother's
Day cards must be
received by May 1st
and by May 7th for
e-cards. To learn
more,
click here.
Africa Trips in June
The Teach Peace
Seattle University
Liberia trip and a
second peace trip to
Liberia are in June.
This is a special
opportunity
to experience
life with local
people and
participate in Teach
Peace programs. To
learn more, call
530-554-7061.
Evening of Peace
on September 24th
The Evening of
Peace dinner is
on September 24,
2011. The 24th is a
Saturday night and
the first time in
many years that we
have selected a date
that is not the
International Day of
Peace which is
September 21st each
year. The 6 to 9 pm
time and 600
Alhambra Blvd
location in
Sacramento are the
same as previous
years.
To read the
Evening of Peace
2010 review in the
Sacramento
Examiner,
click here.
Make peace possible
by accepting your
share of
responsibility for a
better world.
We are asking
that every Teach
Peace member invest
10 minutes to watch
the video
in the Money & Peace
section on the left
and send it to your
entire mailing list.
If even 10% of
students were
to understand what
Damon Vrabel teaches
about money, it
would lead to a
groundswell for
peace that is too
powerful to be set
aside!
Consider
asking your
friends and
family to
help the
poor in
Africa this
holiday
season.
We have many
children
needing
sponsors so
they can
attend
school in
2011.
Click here
to make a
tax-deductible
gift of $100
to make it
possible for
a child to
attend
school for a
full year.
Click
on
the
picture
of
the
chicken
with
the
Santa
hat
to
give
a
$25
gift
of
chickens. To
see
the
gift
card
that
we send
on
your
behalf,
click
here.
Save not 25% or even 75% but a life!
When
you participate in an act of kindness life
becomes more meaningful and enjoyable.
