 A Celebrate Life film screening (image courtesy of Celebrate Life) Ronnie Cray, Peace Partners' Peace Education Programme lead volunteer, describes some collaborations with Celebrate Life in recent months.
Peace Partners has established an ongoing partnership with Celebrate Life. They are the community interest company, and the filmmakers who produced the ‘Power to Change’ documentary film. We work in collaboration with them to screen the documentary film, bringing it to various places all around the country. The documentary film helps in the promotion of The Prem Rawat Foundation’s (TPRF) non-religious, non-political, media-based Peace Education Programme (PEP), through which people can find their own inner resources and the possibility of personal peace. It tells the real stories of five Londoners who go through loss and violence. The PEP is highlighted in the documentary film as instrumental in their transformation to find resilience and hope. The screening of the documentary film in St. Austell and Redruth, Cornwall, in May, led to a PEP ‘taster’ session being done in June. A screening in Manchester in July, led to a senior manager for the children's and young people's charity Power 2 asking for a PEP taster session. This was arranged for her whole team, and this led to the full 10-week PEP sessions beginning early in December 2023. In October, the film was screened at Catford Mews, a community hub in Catford, South East London. Peace Partners provided the funding to make this event possible. The event was attended by over 30 people, including the makers of the documentary and the director of Celebrate Life. Volunteers from Peace Partners and several other long-term TPRF supporters attended the screening. A PEP information table was provided, and several PEP folding cards and leaflets were given out to attendees. One member of the cast performed two of his poems, including the one seen in the documentary film. He also participated in the Q&A that followed, answering questions from the audience, alongside the film makers. Also in October, the documentary was screened at Exeter University at their Tremough Campus in Cornwall. Six students expressed their interest in the PEP for schools and universities afterwards at the information table, six more students were interviewed by Celebrate Life, and one student expressed an interest in helping with PEP. A separate report on the event has been included in this eBulletin (see above). Our partnering with Celebrate Life has made it possible for Peace Partners to work towards obtaining Exeter University’s permission to start the in-person PEP for schools and universities sessions on their campus in Cornwall in the early months of 2024. We are looking forward to even more opportunities to continue the ongoing collaboration with Celebrate Life in the new year.
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 The Transforming Lives Appeal was launched on Monday 27th November! Peace Partners is delighted and honoured to support our key partner's 2023 winter appeal. ** THE APPEAL CONCLUDED ON 31/12/23 ** Find out more about the Appeal So much of Prem Rawat and his foundation’s work is about providing opportunities for transformation. From hunger to health and from anguish to aspiration, your support for this vital work makes a profound difference for people across the globe, and it is very appreciated. Between now and the 31st December, the appeal page will be updated with several new videos that show how your support for the Peace Education Program, Food for People and other TPRF initiatives touches lives: If you would like to make a donation through Peace Partners, as a qualifying UK taxpayer you can also claim Gift Aid to add 25% to your contribution. All funds raised will be passed in full to TPRF. To donate please visit our dedicated Appeal Donation Page: In addition to the Gift Aid, contributions will be doubled up to £44,000 by the TPRF major donors' matching scheme, in which Peace Partners has been invited to participate.
Thank you, The Peace Partners team  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Embracing the Possible on Peace Day in Peacecasts Worldwide LONDON ( September 21, 2023) — Want to raise awareness and foster peace during the International Day of Peace on September 21st? Here’s your opportunity to spring into action to promote Peace Day in your community. Show the WORLDWIDE PeaceCast and country PeaceCasts on your own website by using the embed code at PeaceCast TV for that country PeaceCast. The United Nations has declared the 2023 Peace Day theme - Action for Peace. To foster peace by promoting Peace Day, PeaceCast TV has taken innovative action this year offering many individually curated country PeaceCasts, to show the peace-building and environmental efforts, large and small, of people in countries around the world living and striving for peace and prosperity. Steven Klees, Professor of International Education Policy at the University of Maryland in the US, says, "I've watched PeaceCasts for many years and always share them with my students and faculty colleagues. The playlist is always interesting and inspiring. It’s wonderful to know how much is happening around the world to move us towards peace!” As the PeaceCast TV to Peace Day continues, country PeaceCasts continue to come online. Streaming Now! PeaceCasts from COLOMBIA, NORTHERN IRELAND, AUSTRALIA, FIRST NATIONS, CHILE, MALAYSIA, WORLDWIDE, and coming soon WALES, ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND, FRANCE, ITALY, CANADA, MEXICO, and the US. Established in 2010, PeaceCast TV is an international, all-volunteer association which scales up to present its annual promotion of Peace Day on September 21st. It uses the YouTube platform to provide a non-religious, non-political video stream that attempts to connect the dots between the fundamental human necessity and hope for peace and its influence on many social issues and fields of human endeavour. To offer a video contribution or to promote the broadcast on your media contact Michelle Spinella above. |
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