Please consider helping me reach my fundraising goal!

Thank you for helping us fulfill our mission to foster fitness, healing, empowerment and peacemaking!

Your donation will support all of our not-for-profit work, including scholarships, empowerment self-defense programs, and our Adapted Seido Karate Program for children with disabilities.

As I am now 70 and Thousand Waves turns 40 I realize that I have been training at Thousand Waves for 36 of those years!!. I train in the martial arts because I love it and I love it because it helps me feel strong, vibrant, and alive. I cannot begin to tell you how being a part of the Thousand Waves community has helped me through some very tough times especially now.

At Thousand Waves we teach the skills of conflict resolution and verbal peace-making from the get-go. We teach that in a troubled world it is imperative to examine the origins of violence, both in others and ourselves, and work, in whatever ways we can, small and large, to mitigate it. We do this in several ways. We work with teens to give them strategies against bullying. We partner with organizations all over the city of Chicago serving victims of domestic violence, homeless and insecurely housed youth, LGBTQ organizations, immigrants and refugees, college-aged women, and others across the spectrum of gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation.

Thousand Waves is a non-profit organization that survives because of the commitment of its members and allies, and these events are part of our once-a-year Spirit Challenge Fundraiser. I’m asking you to support me and support Thousand Waves by making a pledge on my behalf. It’s easy to do. Just control-click or cut/paste in your browser here https://thousandwaves.networkforgood.com/projects/... which is my fundraising page, and go from there.

Thanks for your support!

Peace,

Marla