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This morning we started out early on the way to Detroit- here is Sarankhu from Mongolia running his last miles for the North American 2018 Team- we will all miss his sweet and fun presence, and hope to have him on the team again soon!
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Arpan will also be leaving today, but he will join us again in Maine. We are so grateful for the age- defying wealth of experience and heart-power that he always brings and look forward to his return.
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Nikolaus is running the whole four months! We are all grateful for the abundance of goodness and dedication that he brings to the team.
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Thank you to all the staff who facilitated the event, including Ms Kirsten, pictured here receiving our Certificate of Appreciation.
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Mia and Samantha kindly volunteered to receive the artwork by Peace Run Founder, Sri Chinmoy, entitled "Peace Feeds the Children".
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Much gratitude for the letter of support we received from Michigan US Senator, Debbie Stabenow. We are also very grateful to our local Michigan Co-ordinator, Kapila Castoldi, who organised all our events for today.
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Our next stop was in Dearborn, where we visited the summer school organized by ACCESS (Arab Community Center for Equality of Social Services)
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This community all originated in Yemen. Some of the children were born in the US, many came here more recently from Yemen.
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Much gratitude to Sarah Shoucair Chaar, the Youth Program Coordinator who helped facilitate the event.
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We were so happy to get to know these sweet children. At first they were quite shy, but once they got to know us we all became friends in no time!
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We hope we will all meet again next time- a big thank you to the teachers and children for all the sweet enthusiasm you shared with us!!
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Our final stop of the day was in Oak Park with the Detroit City Camp, who also participated in the Peace Run in 2012, 2014 & 2016!!
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We presented an artwork to the Camp by Peace Run Founder, Sri Chinmoy, entitled "Imagine and Dream the World Peace Dream".
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A big big thank You Detroit City Camp for once again so enthusiastically taking part in the Peace Run!!
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We met some super friendly peace lovers along the way...pictured is Damien,who said “we need Peace right now!”
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Thank you Michigan for a wonderfully diverse and unified peace loving last day in the United States for a couple of weeks!
Tomorrow we head to Canada so please continue to follow our hope and happiness flooded journey!!
There is no other journey
As inspiring as
Peace-manifestation-journey.
-Sri Chinmoy