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Our PeaceJam club is made up of middle school youth, ages 11-15, who are interested in learning more about issues that effect their community and how they can help combat them. We will be doing PeaceJam programming for two hours, every Tuesday, for six weeks. We can't wait to share what we are doing with our family and neighbors!

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posted 8/7/2009 by Megan K
Registered Affiliate: Rocky Mountain
Club Type: Community Organization
Location: 4045 Pecos Denver, Colorado, United States of America, 80211
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Megan K wrote:
Last week we went on a community walk!! We had three youth that day, our smallest turn out, but it was quite successful. Thankfully the neighborhood was in pretty good shape, however there was not a lot of ownership over it - there was trash on every corner and all long the sidewalk. One youth found a cigar wrapper, there were beer cans, candy wrappers and various other forms of trash. What a bummer to see all of that!
Before our walk we learned about Desmond Tutu. The youth thought Desmond and Tutu were equally funny names. They also really enjoyed hearing how much he loved learning cared about people, even after they had not treated him nicely under apartheid!
posted 6/25/2009 at 3:57 PM
Megan K wrote:
This Tuesday, our third to last group, we had the youth fill in a chart to retell the life stories of both Tutu and Adolfo. I was amazed at how much they remembered! It's great to see youth make connections with the laureates through their own lives. For example, the youth easily remembered Adolfo was raised by his grandmother in Argentina because they are being raised by their grandparents. They also remembered a lot of things that make the Laureates childhood different from theirs such as Adolfo had to work on a farm when he was 10 and Tutu had and the rest of the blacks had to carry a pass around.
This week we introduced the group to Rigoberta Menchu Tum. They thought she too, had a funny name but loved hearing about the chores she had growing up like fetching water while chatting with all the women in her town. They did not understand why she and her family suffered so much loved hearing how she wrote a book, learned Spanish, and ran for president!

Rigoberta's story talks a lot leveraging people's strengths and working as a community to accomplish something. In order to look at this more closely, we did a modified version of the tarp activity from the curriculum. The thing we changed was the focus what youth wrote down. We had youth write something that they are good at/something they like about themselves and on another sheet of paper they wrote something that they need help with. It was a great illustration as to how we can all help each other with our struggles and really admire and learn from other people's strengths! It took many times to get the tarp flipped over, however, once we used effective communication - it was easy!

In order to learn more about Rigoberta's people we painted our names in a form of hieroglyphics. Our hieroglyphics was more based off of Egyptian hieroglyphics but the youth still got the concept. Some even made their own version of hieroglyphics up!
posted 7/2/2009 at 8:38 AM
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