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!

Good Happens.

Peace Grl Out.

TKYC’s Around the Clock Community Service

The Team Kids Youth Council is a group of remarkable young people committed to making a positive mark on their world.

Their commitment is evident by the fact that on an early summer morning, these teens were not found sleeping-in late, but busy making hundreds of sandwiches to be delivered to a local homeless shelter.  This in fact, was just the first of several service activities they completed this day, as part of a 12 hour ‘servathon.’  In just that single day, the TKYC also volunteered their energy at Ronald McDonald House, cleaned-up a beach, wrote letters to soldiers and sick children in need of hope, and engaged in many other activities to make good happen.  Learn more about TKYC and the extraordinary teens that make up this group here, or contact Jenny Heenan at jheenan@teamkids.org.

The Center for Living Peace recently had the honor of hosting the Team Kids Youth Council for part of their self-planned 12 hour ‘servathon.’  At CLP they made hundreds of sandwiches and delivered them to a local homeless shelter, and moving on to several other service activities that day.

Thank you Team Kids Youth Council for all that you do for our local community and world.  You inspire us!

Good Happens.

Peace Grl Out.

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190 lbs of Generosity

The results are in!  Our Grand Opening Weekend service project – a community food drive – collected 190lbs of food for Orange County’s hungry.  We teamed up with volunteers from Team Kids and the Second Harvest Food Bank to encourage visitors to our University Town Center to donate.

Did you know…..

1 in 6 Orange County residents are at risk of hunger. Our unemployment rate still lingering above 12% and that does not include the underemployed, those individuals whose unemployment benefits have run out, or those that have been discouraged from job seeking. Due to the high cost of living in Orange County, an income slightly above the federal poverty level would still be insufficient in helping maintain economic stability and food security, which is especially important in old age when medical costs can be overwhelming. More than a third of those at-risk of hunger in Orange County are children. Children account for 35% of the 615,000 individuals in Orange County that have to worry about going to bed hungry.

Find more info about Hunger in the OC here.

Thank you to everyone who donated, volunteered and spread the word.  It is exciting to be a part of, and a part of giving back to, this wonderful community.

Good Happens.

Peace Grl Out.

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