Hi!

Hi, we are Amy and Kevina Tidwell, a junior at ASU and a senior at University High School, respectively. This June, we will be volunteering on a trip to Israel with the International Youth Leaders Middle East Peace Initiative (IYL MEPI).

If you would like to support us with a donation of only $10 through our paypal account, you will receive a "coexist" or "peace" bumper sticker that we will mail to you.

Thank you for your support and faith in a generation that would like to make a difference in the world.

Sincerely,
Amy and Kevina Tidwell

Email: atidwell@asu.edu

Invitation Letter

Below is an excerpt from our invitation letter:

International Youth Leaders

Middle East Peace Initiative

Dear Young Leader,

You are cordially invited to join a dynamic delegation of fifty young men and women from June 22 to July 1, 2008 in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel for an exciting international service-learning experience. The International Young Leaders Middle East Peace Initiative (IYL MEPI) is cosponsored by Youth Federation for World Peace (YFWP) and Faithlink and is the second cosponsored project of YFWP in Israel this year. Dr. Hyun Jin Moon, humanitarian and international chairman of the Youth Federation for World Peace.

The IYL MEPI will give young leaders (ages 18-35) from the United States, European Union, Israel, and Palestine the chance to further develop their leadership, increase their understanding of all sides of the conflict in the Middle East, and make an impact both in the Middle East and in their homes upon their return. The role of young leadership in redressing regional conflict through means rooted in nonviolence, civic responsibility, and intercultural/interfaith collaboration is essential to finding peaceful solutions to conflicts.

At each juncture of great movements for justice and peace of the past century, young leaders stepped forward to lead nonviolent social change. The role of youth in bridging cultural divides in conflict ridden regions such as the Middle East holds great promise as the next generation of peacemakers emerges. This project is designed to strengthen a youth leadership cadre to tackle ongoing conflict resolution in the Middle East.

The core components of the program include direct dialogue among young people from different cultures and faiths, presentations on universal principles of youth leadership, and service together with international participants. In addition, the program will include touring Christian, Jewish and Muslim historic sites in the holy land of Israel, promoting the ideal of one family under God. During the program participants will live, serve, discuss, and learn side by side. YFWP will provide training on its Ambassadors for Peace initiative and award an appointment certificate to each young leader participant.

The IYL MEPI will bring youths together as ambassadors for peace to bring concrete recommendations and actions of service to the forefront of peacemaking initiatives. It will provide the opportunity for young leaders from around the world to have ongoing fellowship and extended service experiences together....

Sincerely,

Youth Federation for World Peace Head Quarters

Schedule of Events

Here is the Tentative Program:

Sunday, June 22^nd – Arrivals free day in Jerusalem

Monday, June 23^rd – Jerusalem

Tour in Jerusalem

Meeting One Voice- Jewish Palestinian Organization

Tuesday, June 24^th – Service Project, South

Service Project in Bear Sheva:

Group I: Excellence program in "Gevim" School with Ethiopian Children – New immigration- Sports games and painting.

Group II: painting Electricity Box and Cleaning in poor areas

Meeting Israeli Students from Ben Gurion University

Wednesday, June 25^th – Jerusalem, Palestine

Holocaust Museum

Lunch with Palestinian Students at Beit Jalla

Tour in Bethlehem

Thursday, June 26^th – Service & Interfaith project in Tel Aviv

Service Project in South Tel Aviv, a poor area, with Hillel Students from Tel Aviv University

Round Tables together – Reading texts from the holy scriptures of all faiths

Friday, June 27^th – Palestinian Project, Bethany

Service Project in School in Bethany

Service Project in Orphanage House in Bitainia.

Saturday, June 28^th – Service & Interfaith project in Kfar Yasif- Moslem- Christian- Druze Village

3 days with Moslem, Druze and Christian youth.

Cleaning a Moslem Holy site and Druze Holy site.

Sunday, June 29th – Service & Interfaith project in Kfar Yasif- Moslem- Christian- Druze Village

Cleaning a Christian school in the North

Monday, June 30^th – Service & Interfaith project in Akko

Service Project in Akko- Jewish school with the Chief Rabbi of Akko and a service project with the Arab school; with the Head Imam of Akko

Tuesday, July 1^st – Dead Sea trip and departure

Trip to the Dead Sea

Departure to airport

Stickers!

For each ten dollar donation, we send you one of these fabulous stickers.

Donations of less than ten dollars are appreciated as well, and donator's names will be put into a drawing for any remaining stickers.