The PeaceCamp Initiative

I believe in Summer Camp.

I believe that the incandescent joy of a happy child transcends every ethnic and economic distinction humankind has invented to keep us apart.

I believe that every prejudice, every oppression, every resentment, and every misunderstanding can be cured more quickly by mixing everyones children together, making two teams, and letting them play than by any form of conflict resolution, court intercession, or legislation weve come up with so far.

The PeaceCamp Initiative (www.peacecampinitiative.org) is a nonprofit scholarship fund that brings Jewish and Palestinian youth leaders together at a sports camp in Pennsylvania to forge bonds of friendship and trust they can then take back home with them as they grow into the leaders of tomorrow.

Your generous support for the Peace Camp Initiative will make something extraordinary happen in the war-torn lives of deserving young men and women from Israel and Palestine. They will experience a world without bullets and bombs, refugees and resentments. They will learn to trust and value each other as teammates, cabinmates, and friends. They will outgrow their inherited enmity.

These young men and women will also, in turn, become leaders amongst their peers, and start sowing seeds of peace and tolerance in a land where both are scarce.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Summer
• Camp
• Peace
• Israel
• Palestine
• Friendships
• Aikido
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[okimat73]

Yuki, Awesome! Bless you for doing so much to better our world!

Arigato gozaimashuta

[LivingHawaii]

The epitome of loving thy neighbor. Thank you PeaceCamp Initiative for everything you do!

Karen Dvorak

Hawaii

[cfaerch]

The PeaceCamp Initiative is so amazing... It warm my heart to see these children enjoying them self... Makes me believe, that there is always hope for peace... When the kids can do it...we can all do it!!!

Christina Faerch

[esuazo09]

great work and an awesome way to give back! Ellen PA

[Yuki1meltingsnow]

Kent-san,

Subarashii!

Totemo yoku dekite iru to omoimasu.

Yuki Togawa