How You Can Help
Here's what you can do to help and don't worry if you are not a full time activist. You can still participate in the Pilgrimage for Peace. Below are some activities designed for people who may be able to devote themselves for an hour, a day, a week or longer to help bring about peace.
- Invite us into your faith community, activist group, work place & home.
- Suggest stop sites to help in planning the route (suggest the best walking route to the next stop).
- Join in the conversation. How do we become peacemakers, work for justice, demonstrate respect for the environment?
- Reach out to other multicultural, cross generation, multiracial & interfaith groups and invite them to join the conversation.
- Walk with the pilgrims for an hour, a day, a week, the 50 days – whatever works for you
- Provide a light, healthy snack for the walkers on a day when there is no mealtime stop scheduled
- Support the effort to bring Nicaraguan participants to New England for the WALK by sending your donation to Uncasville UMC, 34 Maple Avenue Extension, Uncasville, CT 06382
- Contact local media in your area of New England to cover the event
- Create a list of peacemakers – past or present – that your community might honor through the year and who might serve as an inspiration
- Compile a list of song to sing that will help to focus your work and energize you
- Learn Newell Hendrick’s Song “We Walk for the Children,” written specifically for the 2009 Pilgrimage for Peace, and let it direct you in making big and small changes. (click here for music & lyrics)
- Read the Peace Charter, compiled from the 2008 conversations during the pilgrimage, and adopt an issue as your own on which to devote your energy