WE STAND FOR PEACE

Students of the “Business Academy” secondary school, Levice, Slovakia, gathered to add a new tree to their school’s Peace Alley. Planting a Peace Tree is a five-year old tradition organized by the school’s Human Rights Club and the students who work in the project VOLUNTEER VOICES.Students – volunteers organized a workshop for their schoolmates giving the information about world peace activities and efforts. Through these activities organized by the students themselves, boys and girls from Levice learn what human rights are and promote them in their hometown. “Peace and human rights are closely interlinked”, says the founder of the club, Ms. Mészárosová.
Planting the Peace Tree is a part of an annual workshop by the Club, expressing the students´ wish to create peace in the world. Learning about peace, its history and important figures, students have the opportunity to show the world how they care about peace.
“We organize such workshops not only to talk about peace; we’re here because we believe in peace. However, it isn’t enough to believe, we must work for it”, said Ján Seneši, a student organizer of the workshop. “Only with our active participation can world peace become a reality”, another student, Natália Ľahká.“If peace was here for all the time…,” the students sang at the end of the workshop.
This film which was done by the students themselves, shows their attitudes to the most important issue - the world peace.