Recently the Akron PeaceMakers were presented the 2011 Human Values Award by the Art of Living Foundation, International Association for Human Values and the Akron Peace Project.  The group wants to share with you how honored we are to be part of and to serve this community.  

The PeaceMakers would like to thank our sponsor Goodyear for guidance and their sponsorship and the community for their love and support. We also want everyone to know how much we enjoy serving the community; and we look forward to future opportunities to give back, especially to younger kids and to those in need.

If you would like to join us in our current campaign to bring peace to our city; click this link (161k jpg) for an 8.5 X 11 copy of our poster. Please copy and display it in your business or organization. Stickers and full 11 X 17 posters are available in the Mayor’s Office, 2nd Floor of the Municipal Building, 166 S. High Street or by calling Billy Soule, Assistant to the Mayor for Community Relations at (330) 375-2660.

PeaceMakers Accomplishments & Calendar

January 2011 – PeaceMakers featured in Weekly Reader article, a scholastic publication, read by more than 9 million students and teachers in the U.S. and Canada.

April 13 – PeaceMakers host Global Youth Serve Day & PeaceMakers of the Year Awards @ Main Library, downtown

May 28 – PeaceMakers participate in their 4^th Neighbors Day Akron

June – 50 PeaceMakers enjoyed a day at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio

July 14 – PeaceMakers interview on the Trinity Broadcasting television program, Joy in Our Town, where they talked on the topics of crime, from the youth perspective, and youth recreation in Akron

July 25 – a group of PeaceMakers toured and had lunch at the Goodyear hanger in Suffield Township

August 2 – PeaceMakers assisted 15 community organizations and churches with the annual National Night Out (Against Crime)

August 2 thru 5^th - Seventeen new PeaceMakers join the group through our Summer Class for new PeaceMakers

August 11 & 12 – PeaceMakers help host two City of Akron’s United Way kick-offs in downtown Akron and at the Triplett Blvd. site

August 15 – PeaceMakers host their fourth group of eight international guests from various former Soviet countries talking with them about the origins and working of the PeaceMakers and youth projects in their home countries

August 18 – 3^rd Annual PeaceMakers Teen Expo took place at Lock 3, Radio Disney played host to 750 teens

August 20 – PeaceMakers exhibited at Summit County Child & Family event at John S. Knight Center and also modeled clothing at teen fashion show

October 5 – new class of PeaceMakers begins

October 7 – PeaceMakers presented with the 2011 Human Values Award by the Art of Living Foundation, International Association for Human Values and the Akron Peace Project

November 22 – 10 new PeaceMakers join ranks after 8-week orientation

December 5 – PeaceMakers joined the Akron Victim Assistance program with their annual Angel Tree dedication to victims of homicides

December 6 – PeaceMakers assist the City of Akron Holiday Basket Program in the packaging of bags for 100 needy families

December 10 – PeaceMakers host and attend their first annual college essay writing workshop for high school juniors and seniors

December 17 – PeaceMakers enjoy their second annual Christmas party with food, dancing, Santa and gift exchange

December 20 – PeaceMakers volunteer and assist students and families at the Mayor’s Annual Holiday Art reception for students who provided artwork hung in city hall during Christmas Holiday

December 22 – PeaceMakers help deliver baskets to needy families hosted by Victim Assistance Program

December 28 – PeaceMakers handed out anti violence stickers and posters and participated in citywide prayer event sponsored by Love Akron surrounding recent shootings in Akron

January 15 – PeaceMakers president speaks at the 2012 Martin Luther King, Jr., Community Event, at First Apostolic Faith Church, 790 Easter Avenue in Akron

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