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to hear how kids felt about me, I started to see who I was supposed to be
for those kids. So I think every year, I’m just kind of transitioning, like
adding on to me, like a Tetris, like building blocks or something.”
In July of this past year, Brittanee took the ICEF-PeacePlayers
collaboration to the next level when she joined 130 PeacePlayers youth
from around the globe for Friendship Games week in Israel. From seeing
what PeacePlayers was doing on the ground, Brittanee got to see what
we’re doing around the world.
“The joy was just seeing the kids, to see them on that last day or last couple
of days and, you know, you see tears and kids that are kind of crying. I
don’t know how anybody could see that and not want to do it again and
again and again and again, or something like it over and over. And that’s
how I came out of that.”
The Friendship Games sparked something new for Brittanee, and the way
she’s creating a sense of community for young people at her school.
“I am much more appreciative of PeacePlayers as a whole. I was already
just blown away, but just to know that you guys are just spread out all
across the globe and bringing all these kids together, shifted my purpose,
too, because I started to understand more that there’s a bigger world
outside of just L.A.”
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