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Common Threads: People, Places, and Dreams Coming Together

The QUILT PROJECT: These Are Our Hopes

Students from more than 30 countries contributed to the quilt project. (Click for more info)

Students Help Bring Music to a School in Zambia

Pictured above is Jannack Mahachi, a blind teacher and musician at a school in Lusaka, Zambia. BoPH students from Mr. Ken Buescher's Class in Danbury, Connecticut earned money to purchase a guitar for Mr. Mahachi so the school could start a music program. (Click for more info)

Bridges of Peace and Hope School in South Africa

Students at DeRust Futura Academy performing the song 'We Are Walking a Bridge of Peace' (Click for more info)

Bridges of Peace and Hope School in Budapest, Hungary

US Embassy Cultural Attache Carolyn Glassman (2nd from Right) and assistant Monika Vali (far right) join John Farrell in presenting BoPH tee shirt to administrators at Kolozsvar School in Budapest. (Click for more info)

Bridges of Peace and Hope Concert, Danbury, CT, US

More than 280 students and teachers from five schools came together for the Bridges of Peace and Hope Concert in April 2009, creating a 'bridge' that united cultures, schools and generations. (Click for more info)

Bridges of Peace and Hope Quilt Artists in Hudson, New York, USA

These smiling young ladies from John L Edwards School created the 'Shoelace Heart Square' (center right). Unfortunately, the quilt panel including their square was stolen in May, 2009. (Click for more info)

Bridges of Peace and Hope School in Kiev, Ukraine

Singing in the Peace Garden in Pechersk School International in Kiev, Ukraine. BoPH Board Member Michael Palmer is shown standing on the left. (Click for more info)

Bridges of Peace and Hope Teachers in Barcelona, Spain

Teachers from the American School of Barcelona with Lower School Principal Nancy Boyd (4th from left). (Click for more info)

Musicians, Singers, Dancers, and Teachers Uniting for Peace and Hope

Thula Sizwe (a Zulu group from South Africa), Kofi Donkor and Sankofa (From Ghana and the USA), joined John Farrell, his wife Ann Marie, and BoPH board member Carol Gans for a World Music Concert in Hudson, New York, USA. (Click for more info)

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