Generations For Peace helps displaced children and feuding youth in Aden
On 13 May, Generations For Peace completed a four-day refresher workshop to strengthen its volunteers’ capacity to encourage and promote peace through sport and dialogue among children and feuding youth in Aden.
The workshop gathered together 38 male and female Generations For Peace volunteers from Aden. The training strengthened their knowledge and skills in preparation for two programmes, promoting active tolerance; respect and acceptance; and supporting the resolution of political differences through dialogue instead of violence.
The first programme uses sport-based activities to engage refugee children from Somalia, children in Aden who have been displaced from their homes elsewhere in Yemen due to conflict, and children in the communities hosting all of these children. Using the power of sport as a universal language, this programme is designed to help them to accept the changes in their lives and to encourage them to respect each other.
The second programme seeks to engage feuding youth from different political parties and to support them to use dialogue rather than violence to address and resolve their political differences, encouraging greater mutual understanding and active tolerance.
Delegates’ feedback on the workshop
The Delegates were enthused and inspired by the workshop. Ashraf Gameel, who will be working with children, said: “We all want to spread messages of peace and the workshop provided us with the tools to do this in our communities. It is such a wonderful experience to participate, practice and pass it on.”
Another Delegate, Aya Ebbi, said: “Today we learnt about conflict dimensions and the difference between conflict and violence. We needed a session like this to better understand and plan for the conflict we are addressing.”
Majed Alkavvaz, Delegate, said: “The Samsung Generations For Peace Award for Innovation that we received at the Advanced Training in April made us very proud, and gave us the confidence to continue our work. This workshop has given us the content and skills we need to enhance and expand our programme.”
Boosted by the refresher workshop, the volunteers are all set to run the two programmes with ongoing activities in their communities through to the end of the year.
[This article has been edited by the Operating Team.]
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