American Friends Service Committee

We’re excited to share our new children’s activity book! Download for free and share with the children (ages 4-10) in your life, and then hang the results up with string (there’s cut out holes in the template for you) to decorate your home or classroom as illustrated peace flags! afsc.org/celebrate

Take a minute to ask Congress to continue to keep protections for immigrant children with just a few clicks at bit.ly/KeepProtect

President Obama has proposed speedy deportation, stripping children of the right to asylum proceedings, as the most humane solution for immigrant who are minors. We need Congress to step in and say that it is wrong to strip the civil and human rights of anyone, but particularly children, in the face of crisis.

AFSC began its work in Gaza in 1948 supporting refugees. Since 1950 we’ve worked with community leaders and built kindergartens, trained teachers, and carried out agriculture and restoration projects there.  Now AFSC’s work is focused on supporting youth cohesion and efforts to end the occupation of the Palestinian territory.

Throwback Thursday: Since this past weekend was the 60th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, we dug up a photo from our archives from our school desegregation work in the south in the 1950s.

Artwork by children during times of war from 1920s-current times, currently on display at Friends Select School in Philadelphia.

We’re literally only a few minutes away now from the Senate passing the new immigration reform bill… .

May 2013. Rafah, Gaza Strip. Photo from our Popular Achievement/Palestine Youth Program (http://afsc.org/office/palestine)

“Healing through playing” program for this group of boys who were directly affected by the recent attacks on the Gaza Strip.