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LFFP Featured on WUSA9

7/19/2016

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Nikki Burdine, WUSA 9:10 AM. EST July 14, 2016

ARLINGTON, Va. (WUSA9) — It's summer time and kids are out of school, but one group of Arlington youth is still trying to learn a valuable lesson, that of building peace.
The Little Friends for Peace organization held two week-long camp sessions in Arlington for kids to learn through music, art and games to make the world a little bit more peaceful.
The camp also aims to empower our next generation of leaders with tools and practices to solve problems non-violently and foster empathy and compassion for others.
Each camp session ended with a showcase put on by the kids with performances, songs and skits at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington.
Check out the article online here.
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A devastating farewell to a dear friend of peace

7/13/2016

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Little Friends For Peace is heartbroken to share the loss of one of our most beloved peacemakers and oldest friends, Ann Little, who passed away July 11 after suffering a stroke in late June.

Throughout the years, she became a special friend of ours and a true ally of LFFP.

Ann used to teach at the local public school as a special education teacher. She then left on disability and was often confined to her bed, but she never let this limit her social impact nor her capacity to love.

Despite her bad heart and diabetes, the ever smiling and optimistic Ann invested her time and miraculous abundance of energy in care and love for the children of the neighborhood. From the confines of her bed, in what the community has come to know as her “Cozy Room,” Ann lovingly and compassionately raised four generations of Sursum Corda residents by providing snacks, encouragement, Christmas presents, company, homework help, a listening ear, and a sense of family.

On any given day, it wasn't uncommon to find a cluster of 10 kids—from 2-year-olds to high schoolers—gathered on her haven of a bed. If you'd ventured into her room, which became something of a community center, you would've noticed an entire wall wallpapered in photographs of the children she raised—and their children, and their children’s children, and their children’s children’s children.

She became an arbiter of trite childhood fights, a tutor, a grandmother figure, and a source of love and peace in an often-violent environment.

Gandhi asserted that violence would end where love began, and it began in the Cozy Room on the big bed with Ann’s loving heart.

She reminded us often that true peace building is in investing in relationships and connecting heart to heart—having compassion for one another. She showed us how to spread peace by serving as a refuge for hopeless spirits, comforting them, and teaching them joy.

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Little Friends For Peace

​Mailing Address / Peace Oasis
15400 Old Marshall Hall Road
Accokeek, MD 20607
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Peace Room/ Program Site 
128 M Street NW #235
Washington, DC 20001
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Tel: 240-838-4549
littlefriendsforpeace@lffp.org