News
Thursday
22nd July 2010
The GNRC Africa initiated ethics education radio program- Focus on Peace, that has been running since last year in Kenya and Somaliland found its way to Kampala Uganda on the 16th July 2010. The program content combines themes from the UNICEF and UNESCO approved ethics education tool book Learning to Live Together, children’s voices regarding peace- moderated by prominent religious leaders in the region. .jpg)
Radio programs have been proposed as the appropriate outlet for youth voices on peace throughout East and the Horn of Africa. The long-term goals of this initiative are to have a strong youth network for peace in Uganda and indeed the entire East and Horn of Africa, with the capacity to generate and maintain discourse on themes related to peace and peace building. Other objectives of the program include to sustain peace and education for peace, as a poverty reduction strategy at the grassroots, to enhance the capacity of children and young people to affectively communicate through the mass media-specially radio, to plant the seeds for peaceful co-existence among children and young people from diverse background and to raise the profile of children/youth as a category and peace as a value within public discourse.
The peace education program in Kampala will be aired by the Voice of Africa (VOA) Radio. The VOA radio- Uganda is proud of its wide listenership transmitting on 92.3FM in the central region, 102.7FM in Masaka region, 90.6FM western region and 100.2 FM eastern regions of Uganda. This combined listenership totals to over 0.5 million people in Uganda. VOA is owned by the Union of Muslim Councils for East, Central and Southern Africa (UMC) which also owns voice of Africa Rwanda and has partnered with Radio Islam of Mozambique, IQRA FM of Kenya and 789 of Cape Town.
To complement the radio program, rechargeable radios were donated to the VOA radio station by GNRC staff. The radios will be distributed to families, peace clubs in schools and youth as gifts to encourage listenership of the Focus on Peace radio program and other ethics education information..jpg)
Speaking at the UMC offices where the radios were donated Sheikh Haroon Sengooba the secretary general of UMC thanked GNRC Africa for the radios and its efforts to encourage peace via the ethics education program. Also present at the ceremony was Mr Ntege Ismail the general manager of VOA and Ms Faridah Nakawooya the secretary for women affairs.
Radio programs have been proposed as the appropriate outlet for youth voices on peace throughout East and the Horn of Africa. The long-term goals of this initiative are to have a strong youth network for peace in Uganda and indeed the entire East and Horn of Africa, with the capacity to generate and maintain discourse on themes related to peace and peace building. Other objectives of the program include to sustain peace and education for peace, as a poverty reduction strategy at the grassroots, to enhance the capacity of children and young people to affectively communicate through the mass media-specially radio, to plant the seeds for peaceful co-existence among children and young people from diverse background and to raise the profile of children/youth as a category and peace as a value within public discourse.
The peace education program in Kampala will be aired by the Voice of Africa (VOA) Radio. The VOA radio- Uganda is proud of its wide listenership transmitting on 92.3FM in the central region, 102.7FM in Masaka region, 90.6FM western region and 100.2 FM eastern regions of Uganda. This combined listenership totals to over 0.5 million people in Uganda. VOA is owned by the Union of Muslim Councils for East, Central and Southern Africa (UMC) which also owns voice of Africa Rwanda and has partnered with Radio Islam of Mozambique, IQRA FM of Kenya and 789 of Cape Town.
To complement the radio program, rechargeable radios were donated to the VOA radio station by GNRC staff. The radios will be distributed to families, peace clubs in schools and youth as gifts to encourage listenership of the Focus on Peace radio program and other ethics education information.
Speaking at the UMC offices where the radios were donated Sheikh Haroon Sengooba the secretary general of UMC thanked GNRC Africa for the radios and its efforts to encourage peace via the ethics education program. Also present at the ceremony was Mr Ntege Ismail the general manager of VOA and Ms Faridah Nakawooya the secretary for women affairs.
Saturday
3rd April 2010
Monday
1st March 2010
.jpg)
Wednesday
10th February 2010
GNRC Africa Secretariat in Tanzania accompanies senior Religious Leaders to North East Kenya to determine the Spill over effect of the Conflict in Somalia and its effect on youth. February 8-9, 2010.
Saturday
30th January 2010
Friday, January 30, 2010
Just as the days before, the participants gathered all together for a short time of meditation and a recap of the day before, before they split up in the two different groups.
For the Youth, the day’s topic was Peace. The topic of the first session was already practical, thinking about ways to create Peace: “Building Bridges of Trust”. The participants found out more about skills and their capacities for peace building during a Treasure Hunt around the compounds.
After the game, the youth discovered that only if they have Peace in themselves, they can transform the world around them. They discussed the different ways how this might be possible with each other and shared their experiences.
The session in the afternoon was called “Getting inspired on what we can do”. The youth split in small groups and designed posters with their ideas about how to make their contributions to their societies.
The Youth Leaders first session caught up with yesterday’s topic about their role as leaders: “Youth in action: How to facilitate the work of our youth groups: what to do and how?” They shared their experiences as Youth Leaders and how their groups work in their home countries, and they also got new ideas on how to organize their groups and what activities to do.
Going further, they learned more about how to spread the message of Peace in their communities and how to promote GNRC’s work in their country. The afternoon session was also about the spreading of the message of GNRC and how to do it: “Networking and Partnering”. The Youth Leaders learned more about networks, discovered the networks they have already built, learned what they can achieve through networks and how to make them work.
After the afternoon session, both groups got together again to exchange share about what happened in the different groups and to find out which seeds they have sown out so far and how they can continue to sow these seeds in future and keep them growing. In a time journey they imagined together how they want the Youth Groups Network to look in the coming years.
Before dinner, all participants gathered together for the official closing ceremony of the 2010 International Youth Workshop. After the dinner, the ceremony continued with presentations from all participants, sharing traditional dances, songs and food of their countries.
