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Kids for Peace camp raises awareness on children’s rights
The Eagle Down Foundation together with World Vision Switzerland recently funded a Kids for Peace camp in Kosovo. The report that follows highlights the success of the camp as the children were introduced to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and how it can be implemented in their local communities:
A Kids [...]
Peace forum unites children and youth around a common vision
Children from Lebanon, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Abkhazia met to celebrate their vision of peace and learn from each other’s experiences during an innovative regional children and youth peace forum held in Lebanon. This forum was funded in part by The Eagle Down Foundation. Please see the link below for more information:
www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/wvmeero/5235b204cb7b008e498faf183261c268.htm
Messages of Peace and Friendship in Bosnia
The following article came to us from World Vision Bosnia who recently implemented one of our Peace Camps in Bosnia:
Children from Bosnia villages performed at the main square in the Capital of Sarajevo
“Where are you from? What is your name?” – these were the opening questions of the children’s street theatre performance, which was a [...]
Children celebrate peace in Kosovo
Children gathered in Kosovo’s divided city of Mitrovicë/Mitrovica delighted in a visit by actress and Good Will Ambassador for UNICEF, Alyssa Milano, on the occasion of International Children’s Day, but even more they celebrated how far they have come in recent years in bridging the gap between peers of different ethnicities.
The Kids for Peace program [...]
Youth Ambassador Program
The World Vision Youth Ambassador program provides training and development for youth leaders from Canada, Tanzania and Rwanda. The program takes youth leaders from regions across Canada to Tanzania and Rwanda where they participate in leadership forums, visit community development projects, and learn about development first hand.
Upon their return to Canada, the Canadian Youth Ambassadors [...]
Children in Lebanon pursue peace through art
With posters, plays and pictures, about 200 Lebanese and Palestinian children celebrated tolerance and diversity at World Vision’s Arts for Peace Exhibition held recently at a centre 30 kilometres north of Beirut.
The daylong exhibit concluded the three-month Arts for Peace project, which brought together small groups of children in communities all over Lebanon to consider [...]
Breaking barriers with new Kids for Peace clubs in Kosovo’s northern enclaves
At the 7th anniversary of the “Kids for Peace” project, more than 350 youth enthusiastically welcomed the announcement that two new clubs in Kosovo’s northern Serb enclaves will join the existing 14 clubs.
Youth Peace celebration in Abkhazia bridges divides
GEORGIA – Youth from peace clubs all over Abkhazia gathered in Sukhumi, the de facto, Georgian breakaway republic’s capital city, in a celebration to mark months of peacebuilding activities and the achievements at a World Vision summer peace camp.
Youth Council – Canada
The Eagle Down Foundation, World Vision (WV) piloted its first ever youth council bringing together seven key young leaders from across Canada for meetings and training on September 18 – 22nd, 2008.
During meetings at World Vision’s head office in Mississauga, the council met with key staff in the organization including a one-hour session with President [...]
Learning to love diversity in a land of division through Children’s Councils
By Brian Jonson, WVI
LEBANON – An end to homelessness. Free schools for all children. Accepting people with disabilities. Support for refugees. It’s an ambitious agenda for one of Lebanon’s newest advocacy movements, but more remarkable than its scope, is its origins. This agenda was set by children, for children.
Early in 2008, World Vision began laying [...]