WELCOME

A child needs a grandparent, anybody's grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world. ~Charles and Ann Morse

No matter your community, there is concern for our youth struggling and making hard decisions to live through modern and changing times. It used to be that elders throughout the world mentored and held a safe space for the youth to grow into the next generation of our communities. But today those elders are warehoused and separated from their families and communities. Today, older people do not grow into elders. And every year more True Elders leave us.

In 2005 grandmothers from all ethnicities gathered to find their voice, to speak out and to give back. Predominantly concerns for the earth and survival of the grandchildren were acknowledged.

Returning home they continued to work to create a better world for all children, on indigenous intellectual property rights, legal recognition of people whose culture includes honoring the land, completing a peace symphony based on the 10,000 year old compassion of the First People and many small individual efforts to reduce fragmentation in communities through reconnecting youth and True Elders. SI KAZELI grew out of these efforts and private conversations with the elders.