Fields of Peace

08/15/2025

Love, the Heartache — A Benefit Concert for Fields of Peace

>> Sunday, August 17 @ 7:00 PM

Come listen to Marika Straw's intimate, soulful songs for piano and voice while supporting Generation Peace, a program of Oregonian organization Fields of Peace connecting children in rural Oregon and the West Bank.

Marika's rural q***r community organizing work and their new album "Love, the Heartache," released July 11, embrace both the heartache of caring in a broken world and the hope emergent in dreaming and creating new futures.

Listen, sing along, write a note at the grief altar, and transmute your grief in a broken world into solidarity and hope. 50% of proceeds will go to Fields of Peace.

TICKETS HERE
https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/99177030/lovethe-heartache-a-benefit-concert-for-fields-of-peace-portland-atlantis-lounge

03/21/2025

If children are our priority, peace must be our responsibility. Fields of Peace invites you to a powerful screening of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, a deeply human story of life under occupation, friendship across divides, and the cost of injustice.

👉Saturday, March 22 | 11:00 AM
👉Bijou Theatre | $10 (One showing only)

Proceeds benefit the children and families of Masafer Yatta in the West Bank.

This film offers more than just an honest lens into Palestinian life, it reveals the systems that perpetuate conflict, and the urgent need to challenge them if we want a world where children are safe, free, and able to dream.

As a peace organization dedicated to children, we believe that adults must learn the lessons of war and systematic oppression in order to build a future of peace. Let this film be part of that learning.

“There is a different path… With national rights for both of our people.”
— Yuval Abraham

Join us in witnessing truth, and standing for peace.

12/30/2024

As the year draws to a close, we reflect on the light that compassion brings, even in the darkest times. This season of giving offers a moment to hold children in our hearts: children in Gaza lighting candles not for celebration but in remembrance, children in Sudan facing hunger, and countless others whose lives have been shaped by conflict and loss. While their challenges remain great, so does our shared capacity for kindness and action.

At Fields of Peace, we believe in transforming love into a force for peace. Every program we run is guided by this belief—that children living through war must know they are seen, valued, and supported by a global community that cares. Through the Generation Peace Program and our Children’s Rights Workshops, we create spaces where children’s voices echo across borders and friendships replace fear.

This season, we invite you to join us in offering a gift of peace. Your support will help sustain and expand programs that empower children to share their stories, build friendships across borders, and be seen as current and future leaders of peace.

Give the Gift of Peace

$25 – Provides materials for a Children’s Rights Workshop, where children can express themselves and connect with a supportive community.

$50 – Funds a virtual exchange, building friendships between children in conflict zones and their peers in the U.S., bridging divides with hope.

$100 – Supports a Children’s Rights Workshop, amplifying children’s voices and addressing urgent needs through advocacy and action.

$250 – Sponsors a child’s full participation in the Generation Peace Program, empowering them as a peacebuilder and bridge to a better future.

If you missed our recent newsletter, “Light a Candle for the Children”, we invite you to read it here and join us in spreading light, love, and hope this holiday season.

This holiday season, light a candle for the children. Let your light be a symbol of remembrance, hope, and love. And please consider making a gift that will help turn those symbols into lasting change.

Together, we can create a future defined by peace, compassion, and shared humanity. Thank you for believing in a better world for ALL children.

Make a gift for the children,

Reem Ghunaim
Executive Director

Wishing you a New Year filled with hope and a world made better for the children we hold in our hearts.

READ THE FULL STORY: https://mailchi.mp/bfe7fb5db615/lead_peace-10334178?e=0753ac1793

12/20/2024

Dear Fields of Peace Community,

As this year comes to a close, our hearts are filled with profound gratitude for each of you. You have been the steady foundation of our mission, standing with us through your solidarity, compassion, and unstoppable belief in a more just world. You have been a home where peace finds possibility, where children’s voices are cherished, and where humanity comes first.

In a world fractured by violent conflict, where violations of children’s rights in places like Palestine, Sudan, and Lebanon weigh heavily on our hearts, you have chosen to respond with love and action. Your trust has strengthened us; your support has made resilience possible, not only for our team but for the children whose futures you help safeguard. Because of you, we have not given up. And because of you, neither have the children.

This past year, your commitment helped us lay a stronger foundation for our key initiatives: the Children’s Rights Workshops and the Generation Peace Program. These programs are lifelines of learning, empathy, and advocacy. Through them, you have empowered children to envision a world where they are safe, valued, and free; a world where their stories are heard and their futures protected.

As we celebrate this season of light and hope, let us also remember the children who need us most. Children in Gaza and Sudan facing hunger, children in Palestine and Lebanon lighting candles not for celebration but in mourning for lost friends and family. They deserve our love and remembrance. This season, I invite you to join them: light a candle in their honor on Christmas Day, Hanukkah, New Year’s, or any moment of reflection this season. Hold them in your heart during your celebrations. Send them love, a prayer, or perhaps even a letter through Fields of Peace. Let them know they are not forgotten, they are loved by us all.

During this season of giving and reflection, we invite you to embrace the joy of service: the joy of amplifying voices often unheard, the joy of standing with children facing the unimaginable hardships of wars and genocide, the joy of transforming compassion into action. In doing so, we become the best versions of ourselves; those who choose justice, mercy, and hope.

As we enter a new year, we hold onto this shared hope. Because of your belief in our mission, we look forward to expanding our programs and strengthening our community of peacebuilders. Together, we will continue to build bridges of understanding and solidarity, ensuring that every child, everywhere, is seen, heard, and loved.

I also invite you to revisit this speech we shared last Christmas, honoring the voices of the children of Gaza; a reminder of the journey we’ve walked together and the values that continue to unite us. Though the challenges have deepened, so has our resolve.

Thank you for being a part of this extraordinary movement. Thank you for believing in love over hate, peace over war, hope over despair and light over darkness. You are an essential part of this story: a love story for the children we serve and the future we build together for them.

Light a candle for the children,

Reem Ghunaim
Executive Director

https://mailchi.mp/3285faed5dec/lead_peace-10334096?e=0753ac1793

11/02/2024

Must watch coverage from the BBC. Children are not terrorists.

The United Nations have said children in Gaza are "paying the price for a war they did not start", adding that more one million will need mental health suppo...