A message from Jeremy

Dear Friend,

I hope this finds you well. I wanted to update you on the successes of Peace Day 2012 as well as introducing you to two exciting new initiatives as part of Peace One Day’s education programme.

2012 was an incredible success; the coalitions as part of the Global Truce campaign united NGOs, students, schools and organisations that work towards tackling domestic violence, as never before.

The Schools’ Network alone represented nearly 800 schools and thousands of students in over 90 countries and we are aware of many more who were active on the day.

Our focus now is to measure the impact of Global Truce 2012. We would like to report on our combined efforts so that we can all own these results and build on them year on year. To this end it would be wonderful if you could complete the post-Peace Day Feedback form.


Thank you so much if you already have. I would now like to invite your students to take part in an amazing new initiative to build peace in their community. The Microsoft Spark Peace Movement enables young people (between the ages of 13-25) to develop projects that seek to create meaningful change in their immediate environment. Whatever your students are passionate about; it can be anything – Sport, music, art or any activity your students believe has the capacity to spark peace in their community.


Peace One Day will select the most engaging and innovative projects and give each the opportunity to raise funding for the projects on GiveforYouth.org, with an upper limit of USD$10,000 per project. It could not be simpler to join. Visit the Peace One Day Facebook page and click on the SPARK PEACE app to submit project ideas and for more information. The deadline for entries is the 21st October 2012. We have created a Spark Peace poster to help you spread word of this initiative to your students.

The second exciting development I wanted to update you on concerns our Global Education Resource. For teachers and parents, Peace One Day has partnered with Skype to create an innovative crowd-funding platform, Skype for Peace. Contributions to this platform will help to realise our goal of seeing Peace One Day’s Global Education Resource in every classroom around the world. Please share this with other teachers and parents as appropriate; donations can be as small as USD$10 and every contribution helps. To help you promote the Skype for Peace campaign we have created a poster that you can print out to share with your community. Many thanks for all of your support, Warm regards, In peace Jeremy