APABA's Tolerance Education Project Reaches Local Schools
January 08, 2004This sub-committee has already disseminated information at Sikh temples about hate crimes and government offices and agencies to contact if victimized by hate crimes. We also have developed and implemented a program to educate and raise awareness among intermediate and high school students about hate crimes, including prevention, reporting and consequences, tolerance education and respect for differences. Last summer, APABA launched this program where more than a dozen volunteers visited middle school classes at Temple and Garvey Intermediate Schools and presented workshops to 7th-grade students, showing a hate crimes video and engaging the students in a socratic dialogue about hate crimes prevention and reporting and tolerance of each others’ differences. This pilot program reached more than a hundred students and was very well received.
Volunteering for one session only takes about 2 hours of your workday and is a very rewarding experience. Our next volunteer training is Tuesday, January 27, 2004, 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Where: Daar & Newman, P.C.
865 South Figueroa, Suite 2300
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Phone (213) 892-0999
Park in the garage. Parking will be validated, compliments of Sandeep Baweja.
For more information, please contact Sandeep Baweja, at Daar & Newman, P.C., 865 South Figueroa, Suite 2300, Los Angeles, CA 90017, (213) 892-0999, fax (213) 892-1066, or David G. Halm, c/o Fainsbert Mase & Snyder, LLP, 11835 West Olympic Blvd., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90064, (310) 473-6400 fax (310) 473-8702.
