Promote peace, justice, inclusion, and civil rights support for all
Grant Information | |
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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. |
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. |