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Article: All aboard the children's peace train.(World Children's Festival)(Brief article)
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- January 1, 2008
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Helped by my 13-year-old daughter Eloisa, I asked children to address the question, "If you could put peace on a train and send it off to children in a country at war, what would it look like?"
When I arrived at the workshop venue, I met the previous presenter, Sergio, a famous Mexican painter. As we talked, I soon learned that he knew my cousin Silvia, whom I met last year on a Korean Island. Sergio promised to bring her a Children's Peace Train (CPT) book, and we talked about putting our Peace Trains together, endorsing that Peace Trains around the world would unite into one vast group.
While our CPT workshop was scheduled for only an hour, it went on ...