Gugulethu community is a densely populated township in Cape Town, approx. 600 km's from their original homes at the Eastern Cape. Many of Gugulethu residents migrated looking for work and opportunities to further their studies. Issues like lack of family support, communication and unity were the most shared feelings. Sadly many come from broken families, have lost family members and haven't managed to grief the loved ones, women having to be single parents while fathers are absent b choice or in jail.. Some have had to raise their siblings from an early age. Cape town is a beautiful city but the black & Coloured families in low settlement communities are stretched in pain and discomfort searching for healing and a miracle.

The Nakuru National library is one among five few libraries in the country to have an American corner within. This space which is under the American Embassy allows for different programs to happen all aimed at improving relations and capacity building to the citizen.

This is a talent nurturing group which comprises 28 members 7 senior adults and 21 youths. The objective of the group is to do advocacy in various issues. The group has a patron and trainers who have been active in iofc work therefore issues of moral values dominate their message and activities. They set off with a message on how we should safe guarding ourselves against Corona virus as well as calling out for people to have faith so as to make it through the pandemic. They also address various social issues and present them in form of skits, poetry, rap, songs and dance. These include personal discipline, domestic issues, gender, leadership, political maturity and much more.

Kenya I Care program therefore explores dynamics within the society and the needs arising due to social, economic and political extremes in order to inspire meaningful lives in young people. Every year many schools are reached by this program, and many other young people in different forums.

 Since covid 19 hit our country– there has been challenges in the flow of the program. However, Subukia the program has still been running. This happens at Subukia Vocational Training Centre. this is a technical training centre targeting high school levers who do not make it to campus. The centre provides training in various technical discipline namely motro vehicle mechanic, electrical and electronics, building and construction, fashion and design , beauty and cosmetics among others. We therefore have a group of young mature adults learning. This calls for a need to guide them on different issues as well as to train them to be capable guiding peers of others. There is therefore, a 2 hour session every Friday afternoon to cater for this.

Education is a powerful tool available to fight global poverty. Unfortunately, millions of young people are deprived of the access to quality education owing to cost of enrolment or tuition, resulting in frustration and by extension, illiterate and an uninformed society. Fortunately, Moral Re-Armament/Initiatives of Change, Nigeria, is stepping forward to bring hope and alleviate their related hardship in this regard by providing grants aimed at giving hope to the dreams of brilliant, intelligent indigent Nigerians. This grant will support deserving qualified students in the realization of their potential. The deadline for the current application cycle is 30 November 2021.

Initiatives of Change Australia (IofCA) completed its two-year partnership with the Southern Migrant and Refugee Centre in Dandenong, Victoria, with an online session of food and art on 20 August. The event highlighted how far Creators of Peace has come in adapting Peace Circles to an online format—and the need for more peace, as politics and the global pandemic take their toll.

We are pleased to present you the Trustbuilding Program's Impact Report for 2020/2021

Lillian has countless stories about the impact of the ‘miracle train’, as many call it: the uncontrollable schoolchildren who turned out to need glasses, and later won scholarships; the passive physically challenged children whose faces lit up when they were given crayons; the traditional healers who learnt how to avoid infection and now boast that they are ‘Phelophepa doctors’; the students who worked late into the night when a busload of patients arrived after hours; the student optician who helped his patients choose flattering glasses. ‘Things like that make people feel tall and loved,’ she says. ‘It was not just treating people, it was giving people dignity and self-respect.’

he Creators of Peace (CoP) women's initiative was launched in 1991 at the Initiatives of Change conference centre in Caux, Switzerland by the Hon Anna Abdallah Msekwa of Tanzania, a respected politician and leader of her country's women's organizations. In her inaugural speech, she urged everyone to 'create peace wherever we are, in our hearts, our homes, our workplace and our community. We all pretend that someone else is the stumbling block… Could that someone be myself?'
CoP is now a global network of people working on different continents through Creators of Peace Circles, workshops, personal encounters, community building activities and international conferences

A battery production business in a sub-Saharan African country was saved from closure, thanks to the intervention of a well-established NGO (Non-Governmental Organization). The battery company was owned by a multinational, which was keen to offload it. The batteries were for agricultural and industrial use but, with economic decline in the country, the company was not doing well.