AFSC - San Francisco
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AFSC San Francisco coordinates various programs and activities related to homeless organizing, peacebuilding, and public education.
Working Essentials
Since 1996, Working Essentials has provided personal care products, school supplies and other basic goods to agencies providing job readiness training to San Francisco’s working poor and homeless populations. In so doing, we have provided literally tons of toiletries, diapers and similarly essential items to area residents seeking to turn their lives around.
In 2003, Working Essentials was adopted by the
American Friends Service
Committee, which maintains responsibility for
all outreach, fundraising
and program growth.
Peace
Education
AFSC provides support and leadership to strengthen and broaden a peace movement that bridges many issues and engages many communities. The Peace Education Program works with peace organizations and local communities to organize nonviolence programs for youth, interfaith dinners for women and religious leaders, speaking events, public actions, and popular education programs that include music and art to engage youth more effectively.
Middle East Peace
For more than thirty years, AFSC has brought Arabs and Israelis, Jews, Christians and Muslims together in common cause to work for justice and peace in the Middle East. In this region, the Middle East Peace Program is a clearinghouse for Middle East work in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area, organizing speaking tours, public events, and education campaigns and working for change in policy and practice to ensure Israeli security and Palestinian self-determination and to end the US war against Iraq.
EMAP
AFSC's Emergency and Material Assistance Program collects and distributes materials for communities in the crisis of war or natural disaster. The project also promotes advocacy of international concerns, such as debt cancellation, and conducts public events that touch upon AFSC's history or our work overseas. See the afghans for Afghans campaign.