Manfred Björkquists allé 8
193 31 Sigtuna
Sweden
- Arts
- Democracy and community development
- Environment/Sustainable development
- International/Cultural relations
- Youth and education
LIFE-LINK FRIENDSHIP SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANISATION, BASED IN SIGTUNA, SWEDEN. IT PROMOTES COOPERATION BETWEEN AND EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (ESD) OF STUDENTS ALL OVER THE WORLD.
Life-Link’s philosophy is based on the 3Cs: Care for Yourself, Care for Others and Care for Nature, using insights from natural and social sciences.
Life-Link is neither politically nor religiously aligned and was established in 1987. It has international contacts in more than 60 countries.
Life-Link is organised at three levels:
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Classes, committees or clubs at schools supported by teachers, parents and other committed people.
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National and Regional coordinators and advisers
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Head office and Board at Sigtunaskolan Humanistiska Läroverket (SSHL ), Sigtuna, Sweden.
The homepage address is: www.lifelinkschools.org
The Life-Link program supports students undertaking actions for peace and sustainability for their school and/or for their community, while sharing their actions with schools all over the world.
A Life-Link action, in the future called Action, is a minor project, meant to:
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Help the school or the community to become more sustainable and to promote peace
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Give students a sense of higher purpose and direction in life
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Help foster intercultural and international relations
This independent education program was initiated in 1987 by Hans Levander, a medical doctor in Uppsala, Sweden. He was at the forefront of a world-wide movement for peace and the elimination of nuclear weapons.
Since then, the program has been extended also to include Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).
Currently, 106 schools in 36 countries are participating.
The rich experience of students and schools over the past years shows that this program has brought hope, inspiration and optimism for the future into the school’s curriculum.
An Action means carrying out a practical project under one of the following headings called the 3Cs:
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Care for Yourself
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Care for Others
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Care for Nature
Peace actions performed by youth-teachers-parents-community experts. Life-Link serves with 50 proposed actions, each with a short guideline in the Life-Link Manual. Main language is English, and translations have been done into Arabic, Russian and Spanish.
The peace action reports, some with photos, introduced on the www.life-link.org are a source for inspiration to other schools world-wide, sometimes leading to contacts/exchanges between schools.
Read more at this link: https://lifelinkschools.org/new-page-3