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May 15, 2012
23-30 April 2012
We at COE Togo have spent quality time with the students including Children and Youth and adults as teachers. We have reached over 950 students and are very happy because all the courses and demonstrations on culture and peace and love were well conducted and many students, parents and professors have formed a commitment to safeguard peace and share with others.
More than 5 schools have accepted our request to come organize programs for their students, so we ask you. We ask you...
April 9, 2012
At the invitation of the Shift Network, Karoline Buys and I represented Children of the Earth at the Youth Rising for Peace Global Summit.
Peace work has become a big passion for me since 2005, when I realized that violence is a global plague that deprives so many people of happiness, meaning, connection to each other, our Creator, and a life well lived. I’ve worked for building peace ever since. A big contribution has been the organizational structures where I carried out my work, among which...
April 9, 2012
The Vermont chapter of Children of the Earth has recently partnered with the Nepal chapter in the development of a new project initiative titled “help HELP.” The aim of our project is to support the needs and spread awareness of the Helambu Education Livelihood Project (HELP), an organization created by Nepal chapter leader Jimmy Lama. This organization works with some of the poorest communities in the region to improve the quality of education by building classrooms and schools, training...
April 9, 2012
Venue - Gandhi Smirti and Darshan Samiti, Gandhi Darshan, Rajghat, New Delhi
Link - http://iaseve.org.in/
Nina, Diane de Terra (USA), Jimmy Lama (Nepal), and Rodica Pop (Romania) all representing COE attended the Teacher Education program for Peace and Harmony in Delhi, India sponsored by the Gandhi Foundation. In addition Ralph Singh joined us. Expected at this conference were 250 educators but instead over 700 arrived to attend. This is an indication of the deep soulful inner plea of high...
April 9, 2012
Working on education in rural areas of Pakistan is not an easy task for anyone who is interested in motivating people regarding educating their children. The reason is that most of the parents have old mindsets regarding engaging their children in child labor and agriculture work in the fields.
Ashfaque, standing outside village in remote and rural area of Thatta district Sindh Pakistan
For donating certain places like at least one room for opening of school so that their children get...
April 9, 2012
Our visit to the Holiest of Holy cities in India is Rishikesh and Haridwar. Below is the Mother Ganga River and as you can see people bathe themselves here to receive immortality and on the other hand here is where they are cremated…both existing at the same time. Life and death. The Ganga is the Mother and the sky filled with the sun going down for the evening prayers of Aarati represents Father Sun. Across the water is the Parmath Center where Swami Chitanand lives with his devotees. One of...
April 9, 2012
COE Togo is based in a village named Kouvé.
We shared with children and young people here many notions in the following fields:
Environmental protection
The peacekeeping
Love
Music
We touch more than 25,000 people in our area.
Kouvé is a canton of the prefecture of Yoto. For a population of 49,000 inhabitants in 14 districts, Kouvé contains three high schools (two high schools and a modern technical college), four colleges, and 18 primary schools. We have two markets, two medical...
April 9, 2012
Our visit to Gandhi's home of refuge and prayer was unexpected as Diane (Diane de Terra) and I wandered through the city. The museum told Gandhi's story through a series of questions and photos. But it was sitting in his little room where he and his wife spent their days that the energy of PEACE prevailed within our hearts and left us speechless. The quietude was filled with magical rain of deep peace that seemed to be sanctioned from Gandhi's own presence. We then also went to the place along...
March 20, 2012
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March 8, 2012
The Rulindo District situated in the Northern Province of Rwanda, not far from Kigali, was the scene of devastation during the genocide. Almost two decades on the wounds of that genocide are still very much felt, and reconciliation in the area is a necessary and continuous task. In light of this, Shalom Educating for Peace (an organization in collaboration with COE) has been involved in the creation of a dialogue space where people may come to discuss their stories and find restoration. In this...