One Peace at a Time

by Amy Chait

With so many causes to address in this world, we may find it easy to ask: where do I begin?

We begin with one child at a time, and I learned this by attending a screening for Turk Pipkin’s documentary “One Peace at a Time.” Our conscience might motivate us to donate or volunteer because it is the right thing to do; however, the causes for children are not just the right thing to do – the UN actually states they have the right to the same fundamental needs we have.

In the documentary, Turk Pipkin trotted around the world with his camera to not only document devastating issues in different regions – but solutions that are making a substantial impact in education, nutrition, and health. Although we may find it difficult to fathom what living in a third world country would be like – we must understand over 80% of the world’s population live in such realities.

There’s one reality that became a beautiful mess for me: education for children in third world countries. I say ‘mess’ because there are 121 million children deprived of an education worldwide, but a beautiful one because of the enthusiasm and joy that gleams from these child faces for the one chance to enter a classroom. A student happily entered a first grade classroom at age 21 and girls in Ethiopia were finally freed from hauling buckets of water when a clean water source was built in their city.

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