Trips
Children As The Peacemakers Foundation sponsors international trips for children like you.
Our purpose is to give young kids a voice in their own future.
Children are given the opportunity to talk with Presidents and Prime ministers about how the importance of world peace.
We have made 34 trips around the world and visited 42countries! We have met with Heads of State in: Russia, China, Germany, Norway, Iraq, India, Poland, Czech and Slovak Republics, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Japan, Jordan, Israel, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Korea, Belfast Ireland, Taiwan, and the United States.
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| Peace kids meet with the president of Yugoslavia, 1984. |
Katya Lycheva on the historic trip to America addresses the Los Angeles city counsel and presents them with a peace, (Mir) drawing from Russian kids. |
A stop in Rome and Christmas Day mass in the Vatican, before boarding the trains to Eastern Europe. |
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| Kremlin meeting with the chairman of the supreme soviet, 1984 |
Premier Zhao Ziyang of the Peoples Republic of China signs the Children's Declaration of Dependence, December 25, 1985. |
Patricia Montandon and children from seven countries address President Mikhail Gorbachev and the World Women's Congress, 1987. |
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| Pat Montandon plays with kids in Ignap, a famine camp in Ethiopia, after delivering food and medicine, 1985. |
The first Children as the Peacemakers peace trip, 1982. Left to Right: Jonathan Dearman, Matthew Nolan, Raquel Bennett, Sean Wilsey, Patrick Morris, and Rachel Skiffer. Martha Lyddon and Shelley Bennett are holding the Peace flag. The P.E.A.C.E. bags are filled with mail from American school children for the president of the USA and the USSR. |
Michelle Alexander and the Vice President of China, Ullan Fu, play Give Peace A Chance, a board game. |
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| In 1982, on the first peace trip of Children as the Peacemakers, the children were blessed by Pope John Paul ll. Left to Right: Sean Wilsey, and Raquel Bennett. |
President Ronald Reagan meets Katya Lycheva and Star Rowe in 1986. With the children, Marina Ignatevia, Katya's mother, and translator Demitrie Agratchev. Katya was the first Soviet child to come to the US on a peace mission. It was a groundbreaking journey. |
Katya gets a hug from President Ronald Regan, 1986. |
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Peace Kids all grown up, 2001.
Dr. Winston Nguyen, Rachel Skiffer, an attorney, Todd Walberg, attorney. |
Sean Wilsey, writer/author, Rosie Chavez, Hotel employee |
Dr. Winston Nguyen won a peace prize from CATP in 1984. He traveled around the world on a peace trip in 1987 and on our Banner of Hope tour. A pediatric oncologist and a pediatric cardiologist Win is also Vice President of Children as the Peacemakers |
 We brought the first Soviet child, Katya Lycheva, on a Peace trip from Moscow to the USA in 1986, when she was 11.
This was an unprecedented action. Katya and her US companion, 11-year-old Star Rowe, traveled across the United States together.
They visited children and the mayors of each of the following cities: Chicago, Illinois, New York, New York, Houston, Texas, Los Angeles, California and Washington D.C. where the two girls met with the President of the United States, Ronald Regan.
Katya's visit attracted worldwide attention and made a full week of headlines.
The tour set the precedent for Russian/American children exchange, during the Cold War.
Russian Consul General Valentin Kamenev credits Children as the Peacemakers Foundation for creating this precedent:
"When Katya Lycheva came to the United States, there were eighty members of the American press to greet her at each airport.
It is interesting for me to note that as I make this statement, there are hundreds of Russian children currently in the United States and not one press person greeted them.
Because of Children As The Peacemakers, what was once a rare occurrence is now a regular and accepted interchange.
The Foundation has opened up the door, so that many individuals are now walking through."
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