Life-Saving
Peace Day 2010
In 2010, Peace One Day has once again generated an amazing array of support. As a result, 21 organisations will be carrying out 76 humanitarian activities across 29 countries for Peace Day, and these numbers are growing daily.
These are the organisations which, in support of Peace One Day, will be focusing their work (in many cases life-saving) on this year’s Peace Day: African Union, Star Syringe, Pump Aid, Merlin, World Vision International, Mines Advisory Group, Friends of the Orphans, Better World Campaign, Cord, The Water Project, Camps International,The Butterfly Tree, Participatory Environment Development Program, International Medical Corps, Urban Poor Child Organisation, JUCONI, PCR Congo, FONELISCO, Africa Youth Ministries, WhizzKids United, B-Gifted Foundation. Scroll down or just click on the organisation name to find out more about their activities.
We hope that these extraordinary activities will inspire you to make your own commitment for Peace Day, on whatever scale. If you haven’t already done so, you can make your commitment by registering here or emailing us at commitment@peaceoneday.org
The African Union (AU)
The African Union has urged the African continent to take action on Peace Day, 21 September 2010. |
2010 is the year of Peace and Security in Africa and the African Union has made a strong commitment on film in relation to Peace Day 2010. Watch the video here.
"2010 will be a year of many challenges. While in the past few years the number of violent conflicts has been significantly reduced thanks to the collective determination and efforts of Africa, far too many African countries remain trapped in a vicious cycle of conflict with its attendant deadly consequences. Armed conflicts in Africa kill thousands of people every year; create humanitarian disasters; wipe out livelihoods of ordinary people; and make sustainable economic development impossible. There is also a more profound loss: the destruction of hope for a better future".
—Mr. Lamamra Ramtane, African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security
Star Syringe
For Peace Day 2010, Star Syringe will, once again, be delivering safe medicine in over 20 locations worldwide and engage its stakeholders in the peaceful observance of the day. |
"At Star Syringe, the team is inspired everyday to deliver medicines safely across the world. But on the 21st September, we double our efforts along with our global partners. Why? Why Not! What better celebration of humanity is there than to save a life rather than to destroy one. If you agree, then do something unusual on the day, and cheer on everyone else to do the same. And if you want to help us, don't hesitate, as we need all the help we can get!"
—Marc Koska, Founder of Star Syringe
Pump Aid
For Peace Day 2010, Pump Aid will, once again, provide clean water and improved sanitation to rural communities in Africa. |
Pump Aid aim to do this by working with their partners and communities on the ground in Malawi with a major focus on Women and Water. This is an issue that Pump Aid feels very strongly about as women and young girls are often burdened with the task of collecting water from distances up to 6 km a day.
A lack of clean water disproportionately affects women and children. Valuable hours of the day are consumed by them collecting water and this can often mean that children miss out on valuable education. Pump Aid want to use Peace Day to highlight water as a women’s issue but also as a children’s rights and educational issue too. They will be celebrating Peace Day this September 21st by engaging women and young girls in their communities, and partnering with local organisations to highlight the Women and Water plight. They will provide access to water for many women and young girls living in these communities through their award winning Elephant Pump, which can provide water to 250 people.
This Peace Day, Pump Aid will be focussing on access to clean water for women and young girls to really make a difference to their lives.
Watch Pump Aid’s Peace Day 2009 activities here.
Mission Statement
Pump Aid work to combat the global water and sanitation crisis. With the help of its innovative, cost effective and community-centred technology Pump Aid establish sustainable supplies of clean water and safer sanitation provisions. Pump Aid’s work improves health and supports the local agriculture and economies in southern and eastern Africa.
Merlin
For Peace Day 2010, Merlin will present a petition to world leaders in New York demanding more and urgent investment in health workers in crisis countries. |
Peace One Day is backing this campaign and we’d like you to as well. Visit www.handsupforhealthworkers.org now to raise your hand for a health worker on the frontline.
Mission Statement
Merlin is the only UK aid agency specialising in health. They work exclusively in crisis countries, where conflict, disaster and political unrest cost more lives than anywhere else on earth.
As well as rapidly responding to disasters, Merlin’s teams get remote clinics back up and running, training local health workers as they go, ensuring drugs and essential equipment are on hand so lives can be saved. Their goal is to give the world’s most vulnerable people the chance to lead healthy lives. It’s as simple, and challenging, as that.
Click here to watch a video about Collette, a midwife from DR Congo.
World Vision International
For Peace Day 2010, World Vision will host its annual Peace Prize and involve various communities worldwide in various activities for peace. |
"World Vision focuses on the International Day of Peace as a time to publicly rally children, youth and adults around the world in celebration and support of peace. On the IDoP we annually announce the two recipients of the WV International Peace Prize recognising an individual who has courageously worked to bring peace to an area of conflict and an organisation which has demonstrated excellence in integrating peacebuilding in relief, development and advocacy programming over a sustained period of time. The IDoP provides us an opportunity to share hidden stories of courage and competence on the global stage while contributing to an ecology of peace in which all children can thrive and reach their full potential."
—Bill Lowrey, WVI Director of Peacebuilding
Mission Statement
World Vision is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. World Vision is dedicated to working with the world’s most vulnerable people and serves all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender.
To nominate an individual or organisation for the World Vision International Peace Prize please visit: www.wvi.org/peaceprize
WVI public site: www.tinyurl.com/WVI-Peacebuilding
MAG – Mines Advisory Group
For Peace Day 2010, MAG will be finding and destroying landmines in Kassala, north-east Sudan, building the capacity of a team of police officers from Puntland, Somalia and demolishing a store of lethal hand grenades in Burundi. |
"MAG works very hard to ensure our expertise in reducing the devastating effects of armed violence and conflict benefits the most people possible. As well as removing the immediate threat these items pose we also think its vital that communities are given the skills and opportunities they need to secure their own safe futures. Peace One Day echoes this message of pragmatic action and peace and MAG is proud to work with these other organisations to achieve our shared goals."
—Lou McGrath OBE, Chief Executive, MAG
MAG’s impact-driven approach sees it working closely with communities living in daily fear of armed violence and explosive remnants of conflict – from landmines to hand grenades – in countries like Cambodia, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo. MAG learns directly from them the risks they face and bases clearance operations on this information. Safe land released back to the local population by MAG enables recovery and development, helping to pave a road to a more prosperous future. More than this, MAG also tackles poverty by employing staff locally, passing on essential skills and building a robust and sustainable national workforce.
Mission Statement
MAG is a global humanitarian organisation working to reduce armed violence and the devastating effects remnants of conflict have on communities struggling to recover after war. MAG is co-laureate of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize.
Friends of the Orphans
For Peace Day 2010, Friends of the Orphans and Artists for Peace and Justice will distribute food and provide a day camp in Haiti for vulnerable and displaced children affected by the January 2010 earthquake, through the Angels of Light programme. |
Angels of Light is an outreach programme for vulnerable and displaced children affected by the January 2010 Haiti earthquake. They have identified and are helping more than 2,000 children on a daily basis by providing a day camp for those from tent cities, large scale food distribution, a transition centre for displaced children and comprehensive medical services and educational opportunities. In addition to providing humanitarian aid, on Peace Day 2010, the programme will also be using the Peace One Day Global Education Resource to involve the children in peacebuilding issues and activities specific to Peace Day.
Mission Statement - Friends of the Orphans
Friends of the Orphans is dedicated to improving the lives of orphaned, abandoned and disadvantaged children through the support of the Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH, Spanish for "Our Little Brothers and Sisters") network of orphanages in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Please click here to watch the latest video of the Angels of Light programme.
Mission Statement - Artists for Peace and Justice
Artist for Peace and Justice was established in early 2009 as a fundraising effort by Paul Haggis and friends that encourages peace and social justice and addresses issues of poverty and enfranchisement in communities around the world. The organisation’s immediate goal is to build schools to serve the poorest areas of Haiti, providing an education, hot meals, clean drinking water and regular medical treatments to the children living in the slums.
Better World Campaign
For Peace Day 2010, Thank a Peacekeeper campaign will pay tribute to the men and women who serve in UN peacekeeping operations worldwide by collecting messages of thanks from the 29th May up to Peace Day, 21 September 2010. |
Working together with the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, they will deliver all messages to the UN peacekeepers working tirelessly in pursuit of sustainable peace. Thank a UN Peacekeeper at www.unitedinpeacekeeping.org.
Watch the Thank a Peacekeeper 2010 campaign video here.
"United Nations peacekeepers work towards sustainable peace in violent conflict zones and hot spots all around the globe. The International Day of Peace supports UN peacekeeping goals to protect and provide for those who are caught in the crossfire of violence. Peace One Day’s call for a day of ceasefire is an opportunity for combatants and leaders, many who have been in conflict for generations, to put down their arms and reflect on their country, their people, and their families. The Better World Campaign supports any efforts towards peace as motivation for ending conflict altogether."
—Michael Beard, Director, Better World Campaign
Mission Statement
The Better World Campaign (BWC) works to foster a strong, effective relationship between the United States and the United Nations (UN) through outreach, communications, and advocacy.
Cord
For Peace Day 2010, Cord will mark the opening of 44 pre schools, 23 primary schools and 52 literacy centres that have been recently repaired or reconstructed in Chad, benefiting over 42,000 refugees from Darfur. |
The international peace building organisation Cord has completed a major schools rebuilding programme in the four Sudanese refugee camps of Eastern Chad. As the new school year begins – coinciding with Peace Day - 44 pre schools, 22 primary schools and 52 literacy centres have been repaired or reconstructed and an additional primary school was built from scratch. Additionally, 92 latrines have been provided as well as cement blackboards and water containers for every school. Cord has been operational in the country since 2004, supporting 85,000 Sudanese refugees who fled over the border to seek sanctuary in the camps of Gaga, Farchana, Tréguine and Bredjing.
In addition to its life-saving work, Cord will also be taking part, for the third consecutive year, in the One Day One Goal football campaign. Cord in Burundi will be organising a match for young people who have returned from exile in Tanzania and now live in the remote hill villages of Giharo.
Mission Statement
Cord is an international organisation working to build lasting peace in partnership with people living and working in conflict, or post-conflict situations. Cord believes these people hold the key to peace and they work alongside them to make lasting peace a reality.
The Water Project
For Peace Day 2010, The Water Project will dedicate a community-based water well project in Western Kenya, serving up to 500 people who today suffer without safe water. |
This well project will be the result of an intensive participatory development approach which involves numerous local partners to ensure its long-term success. We believe the solution to the water crisis will come from such inside-out approaches that seek to build truly sustainable infrastructure rather than quick-fix water points. It's hard work, but it's essential it be done right or any new found peace will not last.
“The Water Project is pleased to be a part of the Peace One Day initiative by bringing light to what we believe is a fundamental component of peaceful development – access to clean, safe drinking water. Water is essential to life and when it becomes scarce, or one group of people has greater access than another, conflict often results. By working with local communities to build out the infrastructure needed to provide safe water to all, we hope our efforts also help build toward peace.”
—Peter Chasse, President and Founder of The Water Project, Inc.
Mission Statement
The Water Project, Inc. is a US-based non-profit organisation bringing relief to communities around the world who suffer needlessly from a lack of access to clean water.
Watch a video about The Water Project’s work
Camps International
For Peace Day 2010, Camps International will be running, for the second consecutive year, its Human Wildlife Peace Day programme though its camps in Kenya, Tanzania, Borneo and Cambodia. |
"We value the vision of Peace One Day enormously. As a business which works at grass roots level with indigenous communities in the developing world and actively engages in environment and wildlife conservation, we do not need to look far for ways to support the organisation. Last year we ran events from our conservation camp located in Tsavo and focused on human wildlife conflict issues between the local communities and the wildlife, such as Elephants, alongside which they live. In addition we ran environmental workshops with local schools from our camp on the remote island of Mantanani in Borneo. Looking forward to 2010 we aim to continue what we started last year and will engage all our team and clients in some way or another to spread the Peace One Day message throughout our camps in Kenya, Tanzania, Borneo and Cambodia."
—Stuart Rees Jones, Founder & Chief Executive
Mission Statement
Use the revenue of the business to create and manage a professional travel company to promote sustainable business and environmental practices that benefit the people and wildlife wherever we operate.
The Butterfly Tree
For Peace Day 2010, The Butterfly Tree will offer voluntary testing of HIV, education and sensitisation programmes and a workshop to highlight the organisation’s under-five feeding programme to replace breast milk in HIV-positive mothers. |
All activities will take place in Zambia. The workshop will be held at Mukuni Village, reaching out to several thousand people. The under-fives feeding programme is the only one of its kind in the African country and is very successful. The charity encourages women who are HIV positive to join the programme, which provides formula and porridge for infants to help prevent the transmission of the virus through breast milk. All the babies on the programme have recently been tested free of HIV. It also encourages more pregnant women to come forward to be tested.
“Linking with Peace Day helps to promote further awareness of vulnerable people who need only the essentials in life – water, food, health and education”
—Jane Kaye-Bailey, Founder and Chairman of The Butterfly Tree – UK and Zambia
Mission Statement
The Butterfly Tree supports rural communities in Zambia decimated by the HIV and AIDS pandemic. The charity provides advanced education and health facilities, safe clean water, community housing and orphan sponsorship. Our aim is to tackle poverty from all angles in these remote and vulnerable villages.
Participatory Environment Development Program (PEDP)
For Peace Day 2010, PEDP will be bringing humanitarian relief to IDP (internally displaced person) settlements in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. |
PEDP works very closely with vulnerable IDP settlements in the North-West Frontier Province in Pakistan. These communities have been affected by the ongoing conflict in the region and largely depend on the support of organisations working in Pakistan. For Peace Day 2010, PEDP will be providing much needed assistance to these communities. Moreover, there will also be a call for unity in the region, and various other activities will be organised by PEDP to promote peace-building and intercultural cooperation.
Mission Statement
"In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons" Croesus. To follow this quote The Participatory Environment Development Program (PEDP) gives priority to peace & conflict resolution and the development of the most deprived people of the North West Frontier Province including Federally Administered Tribal Areas, FATA.
www.peacebuildinginstitute.org
International Medical Corps
For Peace Day 2010, International Medical Corps will continue its work of improving the lives of vulnerable people in the Sanaag Region, Somalia. They will be training 20 health care providers and 25 volunteers in the prevention and management of severe and moderate acute malnutrition. |
International Medical Corps administer programmes for primary health care and emergency feeding in the northern territory of Somaliland and the more troubled regions of Bakool in south central Somalia, where fighting has disrupted supply lines of food supplements needed to operate both therapeutic and supplementary feeding programmes for children under 5. In Sanaag, International Medical Corps are rehabilitating health care facilities and providing access to quality maternal and child health care, identifying and treating mild and severe malnutrition, and increasing access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene services. The programme is targeting a population of more than 389,000 vulnerable Somalis.
Mission Statement
International Medical Corps’ mission is to relieve the suffering of those impacted by war, natural disaster, and disease, by delivering vital health care services that focus on training. This approach of helping people help themselves is critical to returning devastated populations to self-reliance.
www.InternationalMedicalCorps.org.uk
Urban Poor Child Organisation (UPCO)
For Peace Day 2010, UPCO will organise a Health Walk with children from various slums in Ghana, followed by Community Health Screenings. |
There will also be a ceremony with local leaders and the families to talk about peace and cultural performances by the children. The activities will come to an end with football matches as part of the One Day One Goal campaign.
Activities organised by UPCO will involve the communities of Gbegbeyise, Glefe, Shaibu, Chorkor, Opetequaye and Mpoase.
Mission Statement
Urban Poor Child Organization is a registered Community Based Organization (CBO) that works to support urban poor children to undergo any training of their choice. Gbegbeyise, where UPCO is situated, is one of the poorest slum communities within the Accra Metropolis. UPCO’s targeted areas of operation are deprived communities within urban areas in Ghana.
JUCONI - Fundación Junto con los Niños
For Peace Day 2010, JUCONI will organise a Peace Day Health Program to reach hundreds of children and their families in vulnerable communities in Ecuador. |
The program will take place around September 21, 2010 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Ecuador is a highly polarized country, with deep and widespread poverty. UNICEF estimates that as many as one million children and teenagers in Ecuador are working to help support their families.
Guayaquil, the country’s most populated city, is ridden with impoverished neighbourhoods, which are home to children who are forced to work on the streets to make ends meet, preventing them from going to school and trapping them in cycles of poverty, neglect and abuse. They are often exposed daily to the risks of violence, crime, drugs and sexual assault.
Mission Statement
JUCONI Ecuador’s mission is to provide educational, therapeutic and social integration services for street-working children and their families. All JUCONI Ecuador programs focus on providing high quality services to a defined target population to achieve maximum impact and ensure that positive change is long-lasting and benefits the entire family unit as a whole.
PCR Congo – Peace and Conflict Resolution Organisation
For Peace Day 2010, PCR will provide children in the slums of DR Congo with psychological support, health assistance, drug abuse rehabilitation and conflict resolution training. |
Mission Statement
The Peace and Conflict Resolution Organisation strives to proclaim peace among people in the east of the D.R. of Congo as well as the whole continent of Africa. PCR hopes to free all from inhumane circumstances and to empower communities to take charge of their own destiny. Education is key to PCR's aims, specifically for the future leaders of the world as well as networking between those striving for peaceful reconciliation and those living in areas of conflict.
www.peaceconflictresolutionproject.webs.com
FONELISCO
For Peace Day 2010, in Tanzania, FONELISCO (Foundation of New Life for Street Children and Orphans) will run classes on HIV/AIDS prevention and provide HIV tests to the local community. They will bring humanitarian assistance to women in local prisons, such as clothes for the children, mosquito nets, etc. |
Mission Statement
FONELISCO (Foundation Of New Life for Street Children and Orphans) was founded twelve years ago to provide orphans and street children with the opportunity to obtain an education, medical attention, daily meals, shelter and a loving environment, which they would otherwise be unable to receive. FONELISCO’s goal is to raise Tanzanian children as responsible and productive members of the community who will be able to provide for their own needs and are willing to help those less fortunate than them.
Africa Youth Ministries
For Peace Day 2010, Africa Youth Ministries together with local partners, will be conducting an accelerated HIV prevention campaign that will include fresh HIV sensitisation education and free HIV Counselling and testing in schools, communities and houses of worship. |
Uganda is a country recovering from 21 years of armed conflict that took place from 1986-2007. As a by-product of this war, the Acholi region in Northern Uganda has got the highest HIV prevalence rate in the country, estimated at 14.5% against the national known prevalence rate which stands at 6.4%. Africa Youth Ministries, alongside its local partners, will be providing much needed humanitarian assistance to those in critical need.
In addition to its life-saving activities, Africa Youth Ministries, in partnership with various local CBO’s, Authorities, Faith Based Communities, Associations, Schools, Colleges, Universities, has planned “21 days of peace activism”, in which various activities to mark the 2010 Peace Day will be conducted e.g. Peace Sunday, Peace Vigil Prayers, One Day One Goal football matches, Peace Music Festival, Community Peace Drums, Planting Peace Rocks, Unity Peace March, Peace School Debates etc.
Mission Statement
Africa Youth Ministries is an International Christian Non-governmental Organisation (NGO) dedicated to serving humanity as a whole, implementing development, humanitarian and social economic projects. AYM also works to address major problems facing young people e.g. HIV/AIDS, poverty, armed conflicts, drugs and low levels of education.
Click here to find out more about Africa Youth Ministries Peace Day 2010 activities.
WhizzKids United
For Peace Day 2010, WhizzKids United will offer HCT (HIV counselling and testing) as well as group/peer counselling to all the youth attending their One Day One Goal event at their Health Academy in Edendale, South Africa. |
The WhizzKids United programme promotes and sustains healthy behaviour change amongst youth through three main interventions: Life Skills, Peer Education and WhizzKids United Health Academies. The WKU Health Academies are the long term source of support, reaching an exclusively adolescent population, providing a full range of professional health and counselling services.
The WKU Health Academy in Edendale is the first of its kind in South Africa. The Edendale community was selected because of the high prevalence of HIV and also the attraction to partner with Edendale Hospital and the KZN Department of Health due to its dedicated approach and commitment to addressing the challenges of HIV.
Mission Statement
WhizzKids United delivers excellence in HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment and support to youth worldwide through football.
WhizzKids United was developed in response to the staggering high numbers of HIV infection amongst youth in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Their mission is: providing a sustainable, integrated and comprehensive youth health service; ensuring an environment that nurtures healthy motivated confident youth who promote gender equality amongst all; designing services in partnership with the youth; providing quality training, technical expertise, and continual evaluation in pursuit of excellence.
B-Gifted Foundation
For Peace Day 2010, the B-Gifted Foundation will build a school for the children at the amputee camps in Makeni, Sierra Leone. |
Sierra Leone is recovering from a 10-year civil war which ended in 2002. The internal conflict involved multiple ethnic groups and resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and the displacement of more than half the entire population.
For Peace Day 2010, B-Gifted Foundation hopes to bring peace to the hearts of children affected by the war, by giving them what they have been longing for: the chance to get an education and the chance to shine.
“Peace is not only a core human value, but a core human right. Education is a right for every child and that is why we wish to celebrate Peace Day 2010, with Peace One Day, by providing the basis for a solid educational foundation to those who will not have it otherwise.”
— Andrew B. Greene Jr, Founder and CEO of the B-Gifted Foundation in Sierra Leone
Mission Statement
The B-Gifted Foundation was founded in 2007 through the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs in Sierra Leone. The B-Gifted Foundation is a non-profit organisation that uses creativity and technology to address human rights (including women and children's rights) and environmental rights; enhance peace and sustainable development in Sierra Leone, seeking to alleviate poverty through creative approaches. The Foundation was founded by a McGill University Sauvé Scholar, Andrew Benson Greene, Jr., for the purpose of helping the people of Sierra Leone rebuild their lives and establish a society based on non-violent cooperation, following a decade of war and violence.
www.bgiftedfoundation.cfsites.org
“My experience of conflict is that those who are involved in it long for even a day of peace. To have a day of cessation of violence, that to me is an idea whose time has come.” Mary Robinson, then UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, from a filmed meeting with Jeremy Gilley
