Our work at the Veterans of Hope Project is, essentially, to encourage people of all ages to know that there are deep resources of community, history, culture and spirit which generations before us have used to create and sustain efforts toward justice, compassion and reconciliation. Those of us who share a concern for continuing the work of healing and furthering the development of democracy and peace have many models to draw on.
 
Valdina Pinto, an activist and Candomblé priestess from Brazil helped design the "Environmental Education Model" described on this page. Here is an interview with her conducted in June 2004 by a journalist at the World Cultural Forum in Brazil.
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