By Victoria Nyanjura, Fundraising Associate at Generations For Peace On 9 October 1996, I was fast asleep in my boarding school, Saint Mary’s Catholic College, in northern Uganda, when a Ugandan rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), abducted 139 out of 400...
The Jordan Times 18 September 2019 – Through her passion for music, Maria Haddad, a young Jordanian woman has been inspiring many others, according to the head of the Ajloun Female Youth Centre. “Maria started with us at the centre at a young age, and now...
UN Women Jordan – 16 September 2019 – Tucked in the hills of Jerash in northern Jordan, the community of Al Jezaz is built on traditional values and attitudes regarding gender roles. “Jerash is a very conservative area. The role of the relatives and...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5, 2019/PRNewswire/ — Today, the +Peace Coalition(+Peace), a new coalition of 21 of the world’s largest peacebuilding organizations, announces the launch of the inaugural global Peacebuilding Action Week from September 14 – 21,...
The new programme will use arts and sport-based activities to meet the urgent need to strengthen the resilience of Chicago’s youth who are most vulnerable to violence. 2 September 2019 – CHICAGO/ILLINOIS: Generations For Peace, a leading global peacebuilding NGO based...