You can see my personal blog about youth volunteerism - I updated this when I was volunteering in Baton Rouge, after Hurricane Katrina.

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There are no international concerns which cannot be resolved by peaceable means, not in the terms of supranational government, but in the terms of reason...

...No self-interest can be so great as to demand the slaughter of mankind. He who would demand it, he who would not by every rational means avert it, is insane. There is no justification for war.

-L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health