Welcome to A Bridge to Peace!
Welcome to A Bridge to Peace, a project of Peace Bridges, Inc., an Oregon nonprofit. Our purpose at Peace Bridges is to encourage nonviolent conflict resolution and peacemaking at the community level. Our home is Bend, Oregon, a community of 78,000 people sited east of the Cascade Mountains in the beautiful Deschutes River Valley.
While Bend is our home, we seek to promote peace and peacemaking in communities throughout the world through our A Bridge To Peace projects. But we began in Bend, Oregon, in 2007, with efforts toward having a small local bridge dedicated as “A Bridge to Peace.” The Portland Avenue Bridge crosses the Deschutes River and is adjacent to Pacific Park. We also adopted this park, and have begun planning for a naturalized area peace garden in partnership with the park district. In late 2007 we held our first fundraiser, a soup and wine event that was held in support of our sponsored Betterlife Children’s Home in Kibwezi, Kenya. Betterlife is a small orphanage that presently supports 8 young children. This is a very small home, but a safe and loving environment for the children who live there.
Now, with this modest beginning, we are looking for others who will join us in our quest. Please use this forum to contact us with any questions you may have about any of our A Bridge to Peace projects. Check out the posted photos, seen throughout our website’s links. And if you wish to support our Betterlife Children’s Home, consider sending a check to Peace Bridges, and dedicating it to “Betterlife”. We are a 501 (c) (3) non-profit, and 100% of the funds received on behalf of Betterlife Children’s Home will go to support this orphanage.
Please revisit A Bridge to Peace for timely updates on our other projects.
