ATLANTA--Learning ways to make a difference in the world, students at St. Jude the Apostle School celebrated Kids for Peace Week Nov. 30-Dec. 4.

Using the dove as a symbol of peace, students designed and decorated their own doves to hang in the school hall.

"It helps us to remember to be peaceful and kind to one another," Molly Maloney, a St. Jude sixth-grader, said.

The students also created a peace chain, linking suggestions of ways that they could make the world a more peaceful place to live.

Barbara Poole, principal of St. Jude, said that students are learning that peace starts within themselves.

"A lot of times, organized efforts to help people in any way are concentrated outside of your immediate community," she said. "Sometimes we forget that we need to make our everyday environment a better place. The students learn to treat each other with respect and also feel like they can make a difference."

This year marks the fifth annual Kids for Peace Week, which was started by the Mary Anne Foundation in Painesville, Ohio. During the week, students from all over the world pray for peace and engage in activities that focus on peacemaking in the home, their community and in the world.

Peggy Stanton, president of the Mary Anne Foundation, said that their goal is to teach children of the spiritual origin of peace.

"It is our hope that children will realize that the greatest source of peace is God and their greatest peacemaking ally is prayer," she said.