Memo

Date: 02/11/11

To: 1311 Students

From: Tiffany Gailey

The peace organization I chose is Peace4Kids.  This organization specializes in helping kids in the Los Angeles area who are in the foster care program. They help kids stay off the streets and off drugs. Peace4Kids offer four programs to help the children, the Saturday program, the teen program, the emancipation services program, and the mentor program. The Saturday program gives the kids an education, trips, life skills and mentorship opportunities for over 200 kids ages 5-18. The teen program focus’ on kids between the ages of 13-19 to help them with independent living skills, emotional and behavioral intelligence, economic literacy, dream discovery and goal setting. The Emancipation services program helps those kids who are about to age out of the foster care program, aging out means that they will no longer belong to anyone but themselves if they have not yet been adopted. The Emancipation services program helps them transition into adults and help them to better understand the process they are undergoing. Last but most definitely not least the Mentor program is most likely related to the Big Brother Big Sister program they link foster and at-risk kids with caring adults who have made long term commitments to mentorship. I was adopted when I was younger which is why I believe in this organization and others like it.

Film on Central Asia Institute

The film was informative. I didn't previously know that anyone was trying to build multiple schools in Iraq or Pakistan let alone one. Mark is doing a very nice caring thing for the people, mostly the girls, who need education right now over in those areas of the world. The short film showed how many of the people want to learn and grow and educate themselves so as to not keep going in the same direction. All of them believe the power to change anything is in the young girls and that just educating them to a 5th grade level will change so many aspects of the life they have now, such as the baby count young women will stop having so many kids and so many of the kids dying because of unsanitary living situations. Because the girls ill learn how they can keep life much more sanitary and livable another thing that the girls will help improve is that with the traits and such that they learn they can contribute to the local economy. One man, Mark, helping out people, that once helped him, and who aspired to a better life, a better education has started to change history. It wont happen immediately but in the future when these children take what they have learned and teach new generations and the new generations continue to learn more the way of there life and culture will change dramatically.