Service For Peace is a member of the Building Bridges Coalition, is holding an event on Friday, December 4, to celebrate International Volunteer Day and promote the signing of the Service World declaration. Everyone who considers themselves a volunteer is invited to the brown-bag lunch party at 12:00 p.m. in our office at 1875 K St NW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20006.
The Service World International Service Declaration commemorates the original petition circulated by the University of Michigan students 50 years ago that inspired the creation of the Peace Corps. The Declaration celebrates the future of international volunteer service and calls to accomplish President Kennedy’s original vision to send 100,000 volunteers abroad annually.
The Service World plan focuses on multi-lateral partnerships and exchanges, so that Americans serve side-by-side with people from other countries, including in the United States. Under the plan, both skilled and non-skilled volunteers of all classes and ages will serve abroad for both long- and short-term assignments and veterans have specific opportunities to utilize their many skills in a civilian capacity. We believe an inclusive and mobile model of volunteering will contribute to the development of a new generation of global leaders. To sign the pledge online, please go to: www.ourserviceworld.org/takeaction.
It seems that the world is finally coming together to address global issues through service. The year 2011 has been proclaimed as European Year of Volunteering by the European Union, and all EU member states are setting up for 2011, while the EU is preparing various support tools like a Resource Library, an Online Marketplace for sharing and matching needs, collecting volunteer commitments for 2011 and even offering funding opportunities.
Volunteer service by people of all nations and in all nations should become a common strategy in meeting pressing challenges in education, health, the environment, social services and more. We urge all citizens who care about their communities, the world we live in and the future generations, to think about something they are passionate about that is not working well in the system and get involved to solve it.
About Service For Peace-Sierra Leone Office
Service For Peace in Sierra Leone is an independent nonprofit organization providing service and learning opportunities through community projects which promote transformational and sustainable personal and community development around the world. We bring together people and partners of diverse faiths, ethnicities, nationalities, generations, and cultures to address profound social needs by discovering commonality and genuine appreciation for differences – all through service. We believe that peace begins with the inner peace fostered by service to others and that active cooperation provides the foundation and the real hope for peace.
For more information on the work of Service For Peace in Sierra Leone contact:
Abdulai Abubakarr Sesay
Executive Director
Service For Peace Sierra Leone
E-mail:serviceforpeacesierraleone@gmail.com or sierraleone@serviceforpeace.org
Web:www.serviceforpeace.org/sierraleone
Tel:+23277273135/+23233110785
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