The World Community Center Stl
438 N. Skinker Blvd. St. Louis
OUR STORY
For a long time, St. Louisans dreamed of ways to promote justice and have formed organizations to pursue peace. Usuall, these efforts began in someone's living room or basement, on the street corner, or in some temporary front rental headquarters.
Thus the World Community Center was founded in 1975 and quickly set up at 438 N. Skinker. At long last the dream to have a home for these various organizations crystallized. Peace, justice, and global community organizations now have a home, a prominent location from which to organize, mobilize, and move the world towards greater community.
We believe that a workable world community is essential to the continued development, and possibly to the very survival, of humankind. Problems tearing at our global society are solvable, even though immediate answers may not be in sight. Even problems often regarded as local or national - decaying cities, eroded freedoms, pollution, bankrupt schools, etc. - are likely connected to world problems awaiting larger solutions.
Many St. Louis organizations are attacking the problmens of hunger, war, climate change, racism, sexism, etc. Their campaigns are often not related in any way. Locally, they frequently are inadequately funded and staffed.
The World Community Center hopes to bring organizations with their common goals together to maximize their effectiveness; always allowing for the creativity, enthusiasm and concentration gained by individual group activity.
