Joy In Service
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
~ Rabindranath Tagore
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A Guide for Life From Gandhi
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
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The Little Things
“A little consideration, a little thought for others makes all the difference.”
- Eeyore (Winnie the Pooh)
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Live Peace with Share Our Selves
Share Our Selves, a nonprofit organization based in Costa Mesa, has been working to serve the underprivileged of Orange County since 1970. Starting out, SOS tackled the most serious concerns of the poor by providing meals, clothing, transportation, prescriptions, and emergency financial aid and eventually expanded to include medical and dental clinics. In addition to immediate aid, SOS also provides counseling and social services, including job consulting, to financially disadvantaged families.
Some ways to volunteer or become involved with Share Our Selves are through the Adopt a Family program, which matches up families selected by local schools to donors who provide holiday gifts and food, or by simply volunteering onsite in the food pantry, at the medical and dental clinics, or being a driver to local food merchants. To learn more about how to volunteer or donate to SOS click here.
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Live Peace with Roots and Shoots
Roots creep underground everywhere and make a firm foundation. Shoots seem very weak, but to reach the light, they can break open brick walls. Imagine that the brick walls are all the problems we have inflicted on our planet. Hundreds of thousands of roots & shoots, hundreds of thousands of young people around the world, can break through these walls. We CAN change the world.
- Dr. Jane Goodall
We are very excited to welcome Jane Goodall this October for our Living Peace Series!
Jane Goodall’s world renowned work with Chimpanzees has led to receive titles such as, National Geographic explorer-in-residence, United Nations peace messenger, and the president of Advocates for Animals. However, her work with the Jane Goodall Institute and it’s youth component Roots & Shoots, deals with more than just the wellbeing of animals, but the interconnectivity of the wellbeing of humans, animals, and the environment.
Roots & Shoots was founded by Dr. Jane Goodall and a group of Tanzanian students in 1991 in order to motivate young people to make positive change. It has grown over the years, with chapters in more than 120 countries, to include a variety of projects and campaigns that have a global reach. The program is built on campaigns that are designed to unite a “global network” with common initiatives.
Get involved with Roots & Shoots at our International Day of Peace celebration on September 23rd where Shawn Sweeney, Roots & Shoots Youth Outreach and Engagement Manager, will speak on careers in peace! Youth involved will build and fly giant peace doves and receive premiere seating at Jane Goodall’s speaking event on October 2nd. You can sign up for the youth event on our website.
You can also become a Roots & Shoots member, find a group to join in your area, sign up for their newsletter, and visit their website for more information.
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Live Peace with Team Kids
The mission of Team Kids is to inspire and empower young people to become resilient and responsible citizens with a passion for community service. Young people crave the opportunity to participate and to feel they truly matter in their school and community. Ultimately, the Team Kids’ mission is to inspire today’s youth to become compassionate leaders and philanthropists of tomorrow. Team Kids helps kids, and adults, realize the power and capacity young people have to improve conditions and the lives of others in their community. Since 2001, over 21,000 Team Kids participants in Orange County public schools have contributed over $200,000 in value to local youth-serving charities. A pre-post evaluation conducted by WestEd, a leading educational research firm, has demonstrated this program’s effectiveness for promoting positive identity, community engagement, and prevention of high-risk behaviors, such as alcohol/drug use, early pregnancy, and violent behavior.
To learn more about Team Kids or to donate, visit their website . Volunteers are always welcome. Email Jtapp@teamkids.org or call 949•861•4887 to volunteer!
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Live Peace with Human Options
Each week we highlight great organizations making good happen! They truly demonstrate how much each of us can do to help our communities and those in need. Live Peace by finding and supporting a cause that you believe in through the work of organizations like Human Options.
Human Options is a women’s shelter in Irvine, CA with a mission to help battered women, their families, and their communities end the cycle of domestic violence. It offers a variety of resources such as an emergency shelter and transitional living programs with included counseling, legal advocacy, case management, and job readiness training. They also run a 24 hour emergency, bilingual hotline. Women and their children have access to a Children and Families Counseling Center, K-12 community education, and violence prevention training programs. It also runs a community education program in which their educators present to various schools, organizations, and agencies about issues surrounding domestic violence.
Human Option’s long term assistance and prevention approach has helped thousands of women and children to lead more healthy and violence free lives since they started their work in 1981. Support Human Options by donating fresh produce and spices every Saturday of July, during the Irvine Farmer’s Market, at the Center. Also refer to Human Option’s wish list for donated items or volunteer to help out. Volunteers must be 18 or 16 to work with children’s programs and go through a training workshop.
For more details on the organization’s work, visit their website!
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Algalita Marine Research Institute Makes Good Happen!
Here at the Center for Living Peace, we are always on the lookout for people and organizations trying to embody peace in their communities. One of our partners, The Algalita Marine Research Institute, has been doing just that and we wanted to share some of their efforts with you.
The Algalita Research Institute is a non-profit research and education organization that aims to protect the marine environment. Members of this organization conduct research on plastic found in oceans, and how this type of pollution affects the world and human health.
Take a look at their video below to learn more about their research and what they are doing to help preserve our precious marine life.
Find out more about Algalita here.
What can you do to reduce your plastic footprint? Share your thoughts with us- we are always looking for new ideas and perspectives on sustainability!
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Living Peace Projects: Leap of Faith Day of Service
On Saturday, April 28th, Center for Living Peace hosted its fifth Living Peace Projects day! This time, we partnered with Leap of Faith at UCI, a student-led movement promoting interfaith engagement and community service based on a project from the 2011-2012 UCI Dalai Lama Scholar, Armaan Ahmed Rowther.
The day started off with CLP’s very own, Lauren Quijano, who was the Day of Service student chair welcoming the crowd.
Then UCI’s Vice Chancellor, Thomas Parham thanking the students for their commitment and passion to serve those in need.
Then Armaan said a quick hello and introduced the Queen!
Her Majesty took questions from the audience…
Then the students split up and took buses to Share Our Selves:
And the Islamic Center of Irvine for Uplift Charity…
Some students stayed at CLP to make sandwiches to be donated to the homeless through Vineyard Church in Anaheim.
As well as OC Catholic Worker, Isaiah House (no photography was allowed at this site due to the privacy of the individuals who live there).
All in all– it was a fantastic day!
You can also watch a video from the Living Peace Projects with Leap of Faith at UCI! Thank you to all who participated and made this event a huge success!
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