The Bread of Hope and Peace . The bread is produced in township bakeries and distributed and sold by the people living there. They receive 25 cents per loaf sold, and the remaining profits are plowed back into the violence prevention programs that are helping people help themselves in dealing with the realities of life in these densely populated and impoverished areas. Hot meals are provided in winter months. A program model licensed to us by San Diego, California s Family Literacy Foundation, this program recruits responsible youth from township secondary schools to read aloud with pre-primary children in designated preschools at a set time, each week.
Preschoolers receive important foundations for learning, including the joy of reading.
Training sessions are scheduled throughout the year with youth groups, grassroots community leaders, teachers, and South African Police with a Level One training certificate issued to qualified trainees. Training includes CPR, blunt instrument, sharp instrument and gunshot trauma. Consistent with our objective to migrate violence prevention programs which are successful with youth in South Africa home to appropriate settings in America, we have recently partnered with the Riverside County Red Cross Association to provide emergency first-aid training drawing on our South African model to students of Coachella Valley High School, in Southern California. The 33-hour program is provided to up to 50 youth and includes even more extensive training than our South African model. For The People will open Spring of 2000.