Promote peace, justice, inclusion, and civil rights support for all
| Grant Information | |
|---|---|
| Requested | 5000.0 |
| Granted | 3500.00 |
| Categories | Environment , Peace , Education |
| Location | South Texas |
| Grant Cycle | 2016 |
| Organization Info | |
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| 501c3 Organization | Houston Peace & Justice Center |
| Organization Website | http://hpjc.org |
| Grant Description | |
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| Description | Houston Peace and Justice Center creates a summer day camp experience for children ages 5-12, and opportunities for teen junior counselors ages 13-18 to achieve volunteer hours. Using creative activities in arts and crafts, environmental education in gardening, physical activities with noncompetitive games, yoga, meditation, and music, children learn to deal with anger issues, bullies, and conflict resolution techniques. Interactive speakers teach about past and present day peace makers and leaders from around the world. Many of our children come from economically disadvantaged situations and the grant money will be used to provide scholarships to children who could not otherwise afford a summer camp learning experience. <br><br>The cost of Peace Camp Houston averages $3,000 per week. This grant would fully fund one week of Peace Camp Houston at the Houston Area Women’s Shelter for children living there, and 2/3 of a week at SHAPE Community Center, where few of the children attending have the ability to pay any portion of the camp fee. <br><br>Educating our children in the ways of peace, justice, and nonviolence brings hope to all that our future can be a more civil and peaceful world. Helping them learn how to be empathetic to others, understand how to channel their own anger productively, and use creativity and logic gives them a head start in being more successful adults and making the world a better place. |
| Used for | 1. We will provide scholarships for children to attend Peace Camp Houston, where they can learn to use non-violent conflict resolution, anger management, and about past and present peacemakers who have made and continue to make a difference, while teaching them how they too can make the world a better place. 2. We will be able to hire additional workers to lower provide better monitoring and interaction with children of higher needs. 3. We will be able pay for additional child care for parents who are unable to pick up their children when camp ends at 3:00, due to work obligations. |
| Benefits | The funds from this grant will be used to increase attendance of children needing scholarships to Peace Camp Houston to teach them how to be active citizens, leaders, and advocates for peace and non-violent ways of dealing with conflict, thus giving them life skills to be more productive citizens. We will be enabled by this grant to offer more learning opportunities for our junior counselors to help them learn leadership skills that will enable them to be more confident peace and justice advocates and leaders in our society. A good portion of this money will be used in our Women’s Shelter camp to help these children traumatized by violence to experience unconditional acceptance and see there is another avenue to deal with conflict, thereby letting them see the cycle of violence can be broken and they are not condemned to repeat their parents lives. |