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When was the first CISV camp?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

The first camp was in 1946. Dr. Doris Twitchell Allen has dedicated more than half her life to working for peace around the world. Educated in

psychology at the Universities of Maine, Michigan and Berlin, she was forty-five years old when she envisioned a

celebration of diversity among international youth as a way to achieve peace through understanding among nations. In

1946 she started a non-profit, non-political volunteer organization that would bring pre-adolescent children together from

many different cultures to share their similarities and celebrate their differences. She called it Children's International

Summer Villages or CISV. The first peace camp or "village" was home to 32 children representing 8 different nationalities

who worked and played together for a month.

And to answer your next question, yes, it is a brain-washing exercise on our youth.

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