As an educational organization dedicated to
peaceful coexistence, Children-of-the-Earth is concerned primarily with
intellectual and spiritual growth. Our strategy is to help bring people
together that all may have the will and courage to walk in light.
The authors of “The Children’s Declaration for
Peace” demonstrated in 1990 a natural
learning process, integrating diversity and balancing opposites.
They showed that Peace Education is not something any of us is
able to teach. It is something that we do with others.
The realization that all people are one is not a
radical or recent innovation. It has always been there and so
will serve well as a deep and enduring foundation on which we can
create a better future. Stephen Vincent Benet expressed this hope
in a prayer he wrote when the United States first entered World War II.
It was known as the "President's Prayer" because
President Franklin Roosevelt prayed it at the commemoration of Flag
Day, June 14th, 1942.
“God of the free, grant us brotherhood and
hope and union, not only for the space of this bitter war, but for the
days to come, which shall and must unite all the children of Earth.
We are, all of us, children of Earth. Grant us that simple
knowledge. If our brothers are oppressed, then we are oppressed.
If they hunger, then we hunger. If their freedom is taken
away, our freedom is not secure. Grant us the common faith that
man shall know bread and peace; that he shall know justice and
righteousness, freedom and security; an equal opportunity and an equal
chance to do his best not only in our own land, but throughout the
world. And in that faith, let us march toward the clean world our
hands can make.”
