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www.peaceoneday.org to inspire others. By working together there will be Peace One Day
Sample Pea
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POD Letter
January 1, 2009
Dear Friends,
Greetings from Grade 7 at Green Valley Middle School, VT, USA!
We are writing to tell you about a project that we are working on in our class and to invite your school
to join in.
The project is about Peace One Day and Peace Day, September 21. Peace One Day is a film project
started by a man named Jeremy Gilley. Jeremy’s idea was to create an annual day of global ceasefire
and nonviolence: Peace Day.
Jeremy gathered some friends together and contacted the United Nations; he traveled to countries
torn apart by war, meeting women, men, and children to hear their stories. Jeremy filmed everything to
persuade the world’s countries to create the Day. In 2001 he succeeded! All the countries that make up
the UN adopted the Day and fixed it in the calendar as September 21 each year.
You can find out more at
www.peaceoneday.org. It’s up to every individual around the world to use
Peace Day to celebrate peace and to build bridges with people from other countries and cultures.
Peace One Day’s aim is to see Peace Day events and activities in all 192 member states and beyond of
the United Nations, and we have chosen to support them. Our project for Peace Day is to put together
a Peace POD. This is a box containing information about us, our lives, and our culture (letters, photos,
newspaper clippings, music, and more). When the box is full we would like to send it to you and ask that
you create a similar box and send it to us. We will then use the material in your box to create a display
as part of our school’s Peace Day celebrations on September 21, and you could do the same!
We hope that our Peace Day Peace POD display will help our friends to understand more about you
and your culture and build a lasting bridge between our schools and our countries. We are already
putting our Peace POD together. Let us know if you would like to exchange Peace PODs, and we will
contact Peace One Day to let them know what we are all doing; they will then include our project on their
website to help inspire others to get involved.
We all look forward to hearing from you.
In peace,
Resource L – Sample Peace POD Letter
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