About one year ago (May 20, 2008 diary) we brought you the story of Maureen Kushner, the founder and inspiration behind the project called Peace Through Humor (http://peacethroughhumor.com). Peace Through Humor has been Maureen’s focus since 1994. She has traveled throughout Israel visiting kids in Israeli, Arab, Bedouin and Druze schools where she worked with them to develop original paintings based upon the theme of war and peace. The artwork has become part of a traveling exhibit which was adopted by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs and it has been our privilege to help Maureen spread her message of peace in whatever ways we can.

Maureen wrote this morning with the following update:

This year the show was exhibited in Marseilles, France for 6 months, Bern, Switzerland for 3 months and next week it will travel to Berlin for 3 months, then back again to Cyprus, to Budapest and back again to Germany…

In the USA the show is leaving Ann Arbor, Michigan today for a return engagement in a new venue in Denver for 3 months and then to Buenos Aires, Argentina…believe it or not….

Miraculously to date PTH has been shown in 178 cities in the USA and Canada and 9 countries in Europe…Cyprus, Turkey, Austria, France, Slovenia, Estonia, Finland, Switzerland and Germany…and will go to Hungary in November…and return to Cyprus and Germany…thus far….only with the power and message of the education of the heart…has it managed to be seen by more than 21 million people…

If only the number of people who have seen the exhibit took its message to heart…imagine what the world might be like today!