Watertown Walks for Peace Watertown Walks for Peace joined the Mother’s Day Walk for Peace in Dorchester.
The following announcement was provided by Watertown Walks for Peace:
Watertown Walks for Peace Sunday May 11
We hope you will join us again with donations and walking for the Mother’s Day Walk for Peace. For those who walk we will have a bus so we can gather and return together. Or meet us there!
What better way to honor your mother than to partake in the Mother’s Day Walk for Peace and support the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute and its services to families and communities affected by gun violence. This is our 11th consecutive year participating in the Mother’s Day Walk for Peace in Dorchester.
Visit our webpage to sign up to walk and/or donate and help achieve our fundraising goal. Last year we raised over $7,000. Can we top that? As always, there will be inspiring speakers, an energizing walk, and a welcoming community of supporters. Also, a free bus will leave Watertown at 7:30 a.m. from First Parish Church in Watertown and return to Watertown by noon. Sign up for the bus here.
The Peace Institute was founded by Chaplain Clementina Chery, the mother of Louis D. Brown, who was killed by random gunfire in 1993 and has become an inspiration and model in breaking the cycle of violence for all those impacted by murder and trauma.
It’s a poignant question these days, “What kind of world do we want?” Mayor Michelle Wu has held up Boston — one the safest cities in the country – as a model for the kind of world we want. At the core of the City of Boston’s success is due to its close partnership with the Peace Institute and it’s embrace of their approach that meeting the needs of families and communities with dignity and compassion regardless of their circumstances cultivates cycles of peace. You can learn more about this transformative work here.
Thank you from World in Watertown, Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice, and the Environment; Progressive Watertown, First Parish Watertown