New Gen Peace Builders

Foster the Future:  Build Peace

These ten enthusiastic young teens are among the twenty-one local youth who organized this past weekend's Hope and Peace Celebration as part of their NewGen Program.  

Two years operating, the NewGen group began as a vision of local Rotarian Doug Johnson of Santa Rosa Downtown Club.  He envisioned every high school student learning skills and strategies to promote peace.  With the help of a Rotary Global Grant, Johnson and Rotary Peace Fellow Patricia Shafer linked students from Tandil Argentina and Santa Rosa.

The Celebration featured success stories of three inspiring projects: Fostering Peace, Humanizing Homelessness and Planting Roots of Peace.

Attending were students from Elsie Allen, Roseland Prep and Roseland University Prep. Two familiar faces to Sunrise Rotary are John and Logan, President Merle's grandsons and Elsie Allen Interactors.

NewGen Peacebuilders are an action group of Rotary Peace Fellowship.  For more information on these forward acting ambassadors, visit http://www.rotarianactiongroupforpeace.org