The victim, Charlie Howard, as
his friends called him, had moved to Bangor to begin a new life; it
was not meant to be for him. The Howard Foundation was founded from
that frightening night.
We have watched as minorities and people who are perceived as
being different are persecuted, attacked and killed, only because
they look different, act different or choose to live their lives
differently from how others believe they should. The threat of being
viewed as different is perpetrated by bias, prejudice, hate and
violence.
Howard Foundation is active in promoting diversity and
understanding by setting up a scholarship program and by hosting a
festival in 2010 valuing diversity.
Only through education can we learn tolerance and to value the
differences in other people.
We are planning to establish a
curriculum for Raising Your Confidence When Being
Challenged by Bullies. We want to work with schools
from k-12 similar to the DARE Program to help boost
self-esteem for the students in the schools.
We also want to establish a
similar program in a 3 day workshop setting with
bullying adults, their victims as well as other
interested parties such as the judicial system to give
back to the community what was taken away.
Howard Foundation is dedicated to that inclusive education.
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