GET INVOLVED & SUPPORT PEACE To make a tax deductible donation please contact: amy@everydaygandhis.org
By supporting everyday gandhis and the young men featured in THE FIGHT TO FORGIVE, you’re joining the culture of Peace. Our projects are model examples of grassroots peacebuilding that use creative, collaborative, and innovative approaches to foster community reconciliation.
Community Based Project Objectives: • • • • • •
Training ex-combatants as Future Guardians of Peace in post-conflict Liberia Educating ex-combatants and financially supporting their schooling Linking ecological restoration to community peacebuilding initiatives Sustaining food self-sufficiency, drought protection and hygienic waste management through permaculture Supporting innovative community-based peacebuilding projects: Mobile Peace Teams, Cross-Border Soccer Peace Games and Traditional Peace Ceremonies Using multi-media tools to document and share stories of peace and healing—linking these success stories to marginalized members of outside communities
Fundraising Focus: MOBILE PEACE TEAMS Please consider supporting the Future Guardians of Peace as they take their peacebuilding initiatives to neighboring communities and beyond. “Mobile Peace Teams” of former Liberian child soldiers who have completed the everyday gandhis peacebuilder training program travel into nearby communities and conduct peacebuilding forums through “peace soccer games.” The goal of these events is to interact and engage community members with the act of playing, eating, and talking peace together. These forums provide the Future Guardians of Peace grassroots opportunities to share their stories and engage other disaffected youth, soccer game spectators, and influential community elders. These community events help protect the fragile peace that exists in post-conflict rural Liberia.
Mobile Peace Teams Program: General Operating Budget: 3 Mobile Teams Monthly Operations Fees
Peace Soccer Game Equipment Food & Beverages
Transportation: Vehicle Rental & Gas; Internet Access; Generator Fuel & Upkeep; Community Field Supervisor Stipend; Local Office Rental Fees Soccer Balls, Kick Balls, Jerseys, Shoes, Bullhorn, etc. All participants live in poverty and cannot afford supplies. Feeding all participants, elders, and spectators is important. Meals include rice, meat, and non-alcoholic drinks.
$350 per month
$400 per team $150 per event
THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: Educating Liberia’s Future Guardians of Peace All everyday gandhis scholarship students do community service and work exchange projects as a required part of their education scholarships. Going to school may sound like a simple task to many of us in the developed world, but in Liberia, basic education is extremely expensive and poses numerous obstacles, especially for excombatants. For the past six years, everyday gandhis has financially sponsored the high school education of the Future Guardians of Peace. Today, two of the young men featured in the film are college students at U.S. universities. Lassana is journalism student at Kent State University (OH) and Varlee is a computer science student at Foothill College (CA). Both Lassana and Varlee currently have 3.5 GPAs. Soon, Ezekiel will enter a pre-med program at Foothill College. Other members of the group will attend Cuttington University in Liberia, and pursue social work and nursing degrees. All of these students are committed to using their educations to help restore stability and peace in post-conflict Liberia. In order to keep this education program going, we need financial help. We hope you will consider a donation to help educate Liberia’ Future Guardians of Peace. Your donation will support:
EDUCATION BUDGET DESCRIPTION Tuition, Room & Board (annual fee for High School students in Liberian Boarding School) Medicine for Akoi (for head injury pills at school, monthly fee) School Supplies (Books, Clothes, Shoes, Mosquito Net, Study Flashlight, Uniform, Writing Utensils, etc.) Lap Top Computer & Printer Fees Tuition (annual fee for students at Cuttington University, Liberia) Room & Board, Cuttington University (monthly fee) Tuition, Room & Board, Books Fees, Foothill College (Varlee) Tuition, Room & Board, Books Fees, Kent State University (Lassana) • • •
COST $ 3,000 $50 $ 500 $ 850 $1600 $450 $6,500 $36,000
everyday gandhis is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation registered in the State of California. All donations are fully tax-deductible as provided by law. 100% of your tax-deductible contribution will be used for school fees, living costs, vocational training, and community education projects All donations are given as materials, not cash. All recipients are screened and supervised. Photographs of the project or people you support will be sent to you and shown on our website.