Brighton Peace and Environment Centre
Global Xchange Volunteer Internship with Brighton Peace and Environment Centre
Global Xchange (GX) is a volunteer exchange programme mainly managed by British council and Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) and is funded by the British Airports Authority (BAA) and V, a charity aimed to inspire a million young volunteers.
So much has happened since I joined Brighton Peace and Environment Centre that I feel I have always been amongst you. Before I introduce myself, more importantly I want to say I am committed for BPEC to be a Centre which brings together and therefore strengthens peace and environment groups in Brighton. I believe together we’re strong, divided we’re weak. My other equally important objective is to expand our education programme to more schools, educators and community members to inform and inspire global citizenship.
Mabel Pratt is one of BPEC’s founding members. She was interviewed for this special edition of the newsletter to tell us how it all came about.
Mabel has a long history of peace campaigning – she is a Quaker and has been a member of the Peace Pledge Union (PPU) and the Fellowship of Reconciliation “since the year dot”. At the age of 15 she sold the Peace News, the PPU’s publication, at Brighton Station. She remembers others from her class at school walking past with their noses in the air. However, her most successful place for selling the paper was on the seafront where she would offer it to people sitting in the shelters who couldn’t get away!
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Address: 39-41 Surrey Street, Brighton, BN1 3PB. United Kingdom.
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