Peace Education Package for Children
"I used to feel discouraged as a teacher. PiYH takes me back to the passion I felt years ago when I first decided to become a primary school teacher."
L.H. School Teacher in Breda, NL
Peace in Your Hands (PiYH)
Our aim is to promote a fun and natural attitude towards peace. Peace can be achieved by recognising and stimulating the positive within yourself and in others.
Children learn grammar, mathematics and history in school, so why shouldn’t they also learn about peace, friendship and helping each other? ‘Peace in Your Hands’ is such a tool—a teachers’ manual for working with 8-12 year olds.
It is completely FREE for any school to use.
Teachers are given the tools to discuss subjects like peace, respect and friendship as well as the very difficult topic of bullying. In fact PIYH has been shown to help reduce bullying in the class room and in the playground.
More than 80,000 children in nearly 1,000 schools across 5 continents are now using the Peace Education Package.
This is helping them to see and celebrate the diversity they see around them and encourages them to embrace the underlying unity behind what they see.
Teachers report a more harmonious and positive atmosphere in the classroom and that children are connecting with each other and making friends more easily.
"The children are very enthusiastic, they talk about it with each other and their parents at home. As a result we now include discussions about peace and respect at parents’ meetings too!"
M.W. School Teacher in Wageningen, NL
The countries where this Peace Education Package is being used:
The Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Australia, India, Kenya, Argentina, Nepal and Rwanda. Germany, Spain, Portugal and Canada will begin working with it soon.
Where else?
- In rehabilitation programmes for child soldiers in Rwanda.
- By ‘Women for Peace’ who have taken it into Syria.
Peace in Your Hands has shown to reduce bullying the classroom and in the playground.