Since its inception in 2003, Creativity for Peace (a New Mexico nonprofit organization with operations in Israel and the Palestinian Territories) has brought 146 girls, ages 15-17, of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian faiths from Israel and Palestine to the United States for a summer camp program about peacemaking, using facilitated dialogue, art-making, field trips, and social time.
On Wednesday, March 10, Alvernia’s Holleran Center for Community Engagement, the Jewish Federation of Reading, the Islamic Center of Reading, and the Reading Berks Conference of Churches came together to bring three young Creativity for Peace speakers to campus as part of Alvernia’s popular Lecture Series.
During the event, Israeli May Freed (21) sat shoulder-to-shoulder with Palestinians Amira Said (22) and Fairooz Abadi (21) to discuss what it has been like to live in war-torn Israel and Palestine.
They bowed their heads as Dottie Indyke, Executive Director of Creativity for Peace (CP), told the audience that girls participating in the CP camp do not start out as peacemakers.
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