2) a deck of cards of world peacemakers. The deck will include cards representing 66 world peacemakers from all times/countries/ethnicities/religions... Each card will have on one side a stylized portrait of the represented peacemaker, illustrated by a Greater Cincinnati artist, and on the other side a short biography of and a quote by the peacemaker. These decks will be given free to elementary/complementary Greater Cincinnati schools, to be shared with students and used by teachers in the classrooms for assignments about the respective peacemakers included, their life and actions... and comparison with others.
Program Goals:
The original grant request was to help in the creation/publication of children educational tools (comic books on themes of peace and justice, and deck of card of world peacemakers) to be given free to elementary and middle schools in order to expose children/youths to values of peace and justice and engage them in thinking about them and discussing them with the hope that they would espouse them.
The granting board of the Dater Foundation instead allowed SOS ART more flexibility and provided a grant for General Operating Support, that came in very handy allowing SOS ART to use the money for various operational expenses.
Program Results:
1) publication of 6 comic books
2) publication of "Voices from India" book
3) publication of "For a Better World 2024" Book of Poems and Drawings on Peace and Justice by Greater Cincinnati Artists
