Global Peace Service Alliance
By interfaithorganisations
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Multi-sector Alliance Launches Nairobi River Cleanup
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| Dear Friends, Colleagues, Service Leaders, and Peace Builders,
The Global Peace Service Alliance (GPSA) presents a new model of peace building, drawing upon the spirit of volunteerism to build bridges of understanding across religious and ethnic boundaries. Meeting human needs is not only an ethical imperative, it is a peace building activity that can enrich the lives of those who give of themselves for others.
We invite you to learn about the GPSA’s emerging model of peace building in Kenya, where coalition efforts to restore the endangered Nairobi River also include character education, sports of peace, and other innovative approaches to achieve sustainable development.
We are also preparing to expand global peace partnerships at the forthcoming Global Peace Convention in Manila. Please take a few minutes to learn about these important new strategies to build a critical mass of peace builders from all stakeholders, including governments, the business and service sector, and the faith community.
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Nairobi River Peace Initiative
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 The Nairobi River, once the jewel in the crown of Kenya’s waterways, is today awash in toxic industrial waste and refuse from the burgeoning city of Nairobi. Overcrowding and unstable social networks have contributed to a vicious cycle of poverty, infectious disease, and environmental degradation on the banks of the once-pristine river.
The daunting social and environmental challenges, including the loss of habitat for East Africa’s renowned wildlife, have awakened the resolve of Kenyans to reclaim the treasured Nairobi River and to invest in strategies for sustainable peace among the county’s diverse ethnic population. Read the report on the Nairobi River Peace Initiative
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Help Save the Nairobi River!
 We’ve teamed up with Atlas Corps to take the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge and help win a $50,000 grant to promote our shared cause of international service!
With your contribution of just $12, $22, or $102, you will support an international service corps of committed volunteers, and the Nairobi River can again provide clean and safe water to Nairobi’s poorest residents!
To make your donation, go to Atlas Corps Facebook Causes on the web. Select Other, and make your donation amount ending in the number 2. Then send a confirmation to info@globalpeaceservice.org.
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Global Peace Convention Set for Manila
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 Join us in the Philippines for the Global Peace Convention and stand together with leading voices from around the world, social entrepreneurs, interfaith leaders, and prominent representatives from civil society, the private sector, government, academia, the performing arts and religion.
Looking ahead to 2010, the Convention carries forward the worldwide success of the Global Peace Festivals to a new level, promoting a Global Service Alliance, interfaith cooperation, families as instruments of peace, and a wide range of best practices for a world of lasting peace, One Family Under God. Learn about the Global Peace Convention |
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The Global Peace Service Alliance is a cross-sector initiative that promotes peace and reduction of poverty and disease through building a global culture of service.
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Service Partners
Kenya Ministry of Youth and Sports
Kenya Ministry of the Environment
Vision 2030
Global Peace Festival
Points of Light
Building Bridges Coalition
Service For Peace
Mindanao Peace Initiative
Malaysia Power of 10 Sen
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| Join the Alliance |
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The Global Peace Service Alliance promotes service initiatives worldwide in areas of peace building, poverty reduction, and clean water. Support our efforts to build a culture of service. More
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Global Peace Service Alliance | 1133 19th Street NW | Suite 800 | Washington | DC | 20036
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December 9, 2009 at 10:22 am |
Very good program.
Thanks to David Caprara whom we met Kenya.His vision is realy really meant for hunreds of thousands of the generation to come.
I wish to joining you to run the program here in Kenya.
Evans Ngeno
Tour Driver
Kenya