CHILDSAFEfoundation

Recent developments in warfare have significantly heightened the dangers for
children. During the last decade, it is estimated that child victims have
included:

2 million children killed
2-5 million disabled
12 million left homeless
1 million orphaned or separated from their parents
10 million psychologically traumatized

Educating for Peace is based on the ideology that much of the harm that
befalls children is preventable and that children all over the world are suffering
as a direct and immediate consequence of the decisions by adults.

Wars would stop tomorrow if the will to stop them existed, or those desiring
peace devised the means to compel them to be stopped.

Avoiding future conflicts requires not just caring for the youngest victims of
war as our “Foundations for Life” program does but also educating globally for
peace.

There are currently over 30 wars
and conflicts raging around the
world. Some fill our television
screens with appalling images
emphasizing war's brutalizing
effects.

Most of these wars go
unreported, often due to political
expediency or lack of interest.

Sixty million people have been
killed in wars during the 20th
century.

Damage to vital infrastructure
resulting in sickness and
malnutrition; extensive use of
bombs resulting in millions
becoming permanently disabled.
Fallout of depleted uranium
weapons is creating genetic birth
defects, cancers and rare kidney
and liver disorders.

Over 80% of the casualties are
civilians, mainly women and
children.

Children are amongst the first
casualties of armed conflict,
always the most vulnerable and
always the most innocent.

To foster awareness in students of the importance of peace in our world
today. Introducing ways that allow them to be part of the peace making -
peace keeping process and empower them with the means to assist children
whose lives have already been affected by violence.

Peace & Understanding Peace Education is geared towards

Examining and discussing values and attitudes towards diversity,
cultural differences, acceptance, and human dignity.

Developing language and social interaction skills that promote
peaceful relations among people, among nations, and between human
being and the natural environment.

Learning to problem solve and think critically, regarding issues of
conflict and violence. Children are challenged to find a peacefull
solution to a current conflict. Real world problems, addressed by
children in classrooms.