The Problem
We wish to help out the refugees of the civil war in Syria, and primarily we want to help the children who do not have toys or comfort items so we will hold a drive for stuffed animals and we will make cards and pictures to send with the stuffed animals and give the stuffed animals and the cards/pictures to NuDay Syria, a nonprofit in our area that sends containers of needed goods to Syria and the Middle East to help those displaced by the civil war, to go to children who have lost their homes. We will also send several of the older students who have worked hard on this project to work for a morning at NuDay Syria helping to sort and pack donated goods to ship to the Middle East. And we will hold an International Day of Peace Celebration at our school where we will involve all the students, including the younger early ed students, in learning about the Syrian children and their needs and in learning about how to work for peace in their lives and around the world, and kick off the stuffed animal drive and make cards/pictures to go with the stuffed animals, and have a big "peace feast" and plant a peace pole. We will also exchange peace cranes and artwork with at least one school in India as part of our Peace Day Celebration.
