Editorial Wishes

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The child in me wishes you...

...que tous les soirs tu puisses t'endormir avec un sourire aux lèvres
Anne-Michèle Fortmann

Sème des fleurs et apprends à les cueillir!
Hélène Carrière

...que tu trouves en toi le moyen d'être un instrument de paix !

Louise Mathieu-Mills

...peace in your heart and words of love
Christiane Chevrette

I wish you to be always at peace with yourself
Daniel Caille

I wish you to live in an environment where peace and the soft murmur of animals will delight you!

Shella Chahine

I wish you heaps of happiness and a very good future
Idriss El Idrissi

Puisse la paix rayonne à chaque instant au jardin
de ta vie
Louise Pomminville
Poem without End

Invitation to continue the writing of a poem on the theme of
PEACE IN THE WORLD

An original idea of Jean-Claude Fournier and of his 6th form pupils at the Notre-Dame de Lorette School

The project consists in inciting individuals or groups to participate in the development of this poem during the coming months and years in order to create the longest poem in the world by the greatest possible number of authors
Click here to participate


The Face of War

Look carefully at this painting by Pablo Picasso


Without thinking too much about it, what words come spontaneously to your mind?
It would be interesting if you shared them. Would you care to?
Then write to: info@paindepice.org

Peace -Conflicts - War

Did you know that…

- among the 20 million refugees in the world, half are children. Every day 5000 children refugees can be added to this number

- children can be forced to become soldiers, or they volunteer to join the army for food and protection?

- every year, between 8000 and 10 000 are killed or handicapped because of antipersonnel unexploded mines?

- even when a conflict has ended, children suffer from depressions and nightmares? They refuse to play or go to school

Source: War Child Canada

If you want to know more, you can write to: brigette@warchild.ca

On the map of the world, spot the following 8 countries:

Haiti, Ireland, Ex-Yugoslavia, Sudan, Israel/Palestine, Iraq, Eastern Timor


Do you know countries completely at PEACE?
If you do, indicate them


Strip cartoon: Gingerbread, a supporter of peace
Geneviève Laurendeau, 16 years old
Thérèse Martin School
Section art, sec. 3, 2005

Gingerbread gathers his friends

They convince other people

All together, they run for peace