For the 2010-11 school year, the peace committee students chose Nutrition as their focus. Our goal was to explore and promote healthy nutrition in our own lives, in our school, in our community and in our world. We accomplished the following:
• Provided Leadership training to 6 middle school students,
• Enrolled 30 students in our weekly afterschool peace program
• Organized a family Harvest for Health Dance
• Collected Healthy Food for Tacoma’s Food Connection
• Designed and implemented and International Peace Day Assembly and rededicated ourselves as an International Peace Site,
• Bagged up over 2000 individual servings of a protein mix for the Food Connections Back Pack Program
• Provided an after school class on non-violent communication training to the students in the peace committee
• Produced and sold a Bryant Community Healthy Kids Cookbook
• Promoted healthy snacks in our school and at school events
• Raised over $1400.00 for Heifer Projects, enabling us to purchase a cow, a water buffalo, a pig, a goat, 2 sheep, 3 flocks of chicks, 2 flocks of geese, 2 flocks of ducks, 3 bee hives and a set of trees to help families in Africa.
• Promoted the Be the Spark: Desmond Tutu event at the Tacoma Dome, providing 66 scholarship tickets, 2 free buses, 60 t-shirts and free pizza to the 120 people from the Bryant community who participated in the event.
• Organized and Implemented an Earth Day Garden Fair and Parade of the Species in which we had 60 activity, information and vendor tables and over 1500 people attended.
• Purchased and Painted 4 more rain barrels on our school.