Local Non-Profit Serve the Children Wins World Peace Award Held at the United Nations

Can we successfully help children in third-world poverty transform their lives? The answer is yes.

For their successful efforts since 1997 to give children in poverty in Africa  and India a safe learning environment and  education, Serve the Children won one of ten World Peace Awards at the Celebration of Peace event on September 25, 2019 at the United Nations in during the 74th General Assembly.  

Serve the Children graduates are employed and are helping their extended families and volunteering in their communities. They are passing on the values of education and helping others to the next generation. This is success. 

Seeing child soldiers as young as 8 years old during the civil war in Liberia West Africa sparked the passion for Serve the Children’s American founders to start a school for combatants in 1997. With no parents, no education and no future, these kids needed an alternative to fighting and killing, and they needed counseling to move forward. 

Since that beginning, Serve the Children (STC) has grown and now provides education to children and young people in Liberia, Zambia and India, scholarships in Kenya, and comfort rooms for families in Middle East war zones. Local in-country educators and professionals manage each location. Some schools offer additional help, such as food and medical care. Many of the children involved would be working, on the street or trafficked if they were not in STC-supported schools.

Dr. Doug Collier, co-founder and President of the Board of STC, received the World Peace Award at the United Nations on behalf of co-founders Steve Jones and Nathan Jones. H.E. Haija Aisha Buhari, First Lady of Nigeria, presented the Award. Other awardees included Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas K. Gandhi, and Dr. Henry Kissinger, for the Nuclear Threat Initiative.