Seeds of Peace

As part of their ongoing work as peacemakers, many Seeds are involved in community outreach efforts and service projects in the Middle East.

This involvement in volunteer service enables Seeds to contribute to their communities while raising awareness about and promoting the value of Seeds of Peace, and continuing their pledge to make coexistence a reality within their home communities. 

In 2008, Seeds of Peace also added a new community service component to its International Camp program in order to better connect the Camp and post-Camp experience and find new ways to tangibly empower and mobilize Seeds’ young leaders.  Each Peer Support camper now designs a community action project which they implement upon returning to their home communities.

Some examples of the community service projects that our Seeds have recently coordinated include:

• Volunteering on a bi-monthly basis at the Abu Rayyah Center for the Disabled (Ramallah).
• Raising funds to purchase clothing and other supplies for a local orphanage (Gaza).
• Developing programs to lower the high school drop-out rate (Jenin).
• Building dialogue programs between Jewish and Arab schools (Haifa).
• Creating an after-school community center for children (Taybe).
• Running a day camp for children of Ethiopian immigrants (Jerusalem).
• Hosting a Ramadan meal for 100 orphans (Cairo).
• Organizing a sports day for underprivileged youth (Amman).