By Josh Hall (Twitter: @Vancan19)

Peace Bus arrives in Red Deer promoting sustainability

Aug 22, 2017 | 3:23 PM

A young Red Deer man is using his summer to better the world with Children’s International Summer Village.

Eighteen-year-old Cody Mast has been working with CISV for a number of years and is currently on the tail end of a trip across Canada on what’s known as the Peace Bus.

The bus is carrying 13 youth aged 16 to 18 and is making stops in each one of their hometowns where the group conducts a service project based off one of CISV’s four pillars of human rights, sustainability, diversity and conflict.

In Red Deer on Wednesday, the friends will plant trees in Maskepetoon Park.

Mast’s mother Janice Gerdts says seeing her son (and daughter) be active members of CISV has been incredible.

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“They meet friends from all over the world that come from different walks of life, different finances and things like that — they learn to accept differences and recognize we all have the same needs and wants, she says. “It just bridges that gap between the rich and the poor, the haves, the have-nots and they have a much broader acceptance of the world.”

The Peace Bus is scheduled to wrap up its trip in Victoria early next month.

Meantime, Gerdts’ daughter Heather recently returned from Calgary where she was a staff member at CISV’s Step Up camp. Heather has also travelled with CISV to Trois-Rivieres, Japan and Norway, while Cody has gone to Saskatoon and Guatemala as well.

More information is on the Peace Bus’ Facebook page.

by Josh Hall (Twitter: @Vancan19)

Peace Bus arrives in Red Deer promoting sustainability

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