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PROGRESS: Has your organization seen
progress toward a culture of peace and nonviolence in your domain of
action and in your constituency during the first half of the Decade? |
See link below to Soroptimist International
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OBSTACLES: What are the most important obstacles that have prevented progress?
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See link below to Soroptimist International
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ACTIONS: What actions have been
undertaken by your organization to promote a culture of peace and
nonviolence during the first half of the Decade?
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The following is excerpted from the report of Soroptimist Interntional. Click here for their full report.
Soroptimist International Club Villach, Austria
BRIDGES TO PEACE 2004 - 2006
The
international project focusses on KURDISTAN/IRAQ . In cooperation
with a local organisation and partly based on personal contacts,
we want to support women´s efforts to rebuild a
tortured country. Their work of bringing up children and managing
domestic life are vital to the rebuilding.
The project:
We
aim to raise sufficient money to support at least one women- led
mobile team and to enable the group to purchase whatever is
necessary. We have choosen to support a Kerkuk based team,
because here Kurdish, Arabic, Turkmen and Assyrian women are
working together to improve their hometowns.
They have contacts with local women shelters and centres
called Nawa, Khanzad or Asuda, provide first aid and health
consultations. A female doctor offers mobile check ups. Female
social workers deal with family problems and work with traumatised
women and children. They provide very poor families
with food and clothes. They take a stand against family violence
and provide shelter.
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Soroptimist Club Eisenstadt , Austria : Peace Project "All in the Same Boat"
For
the 35 years jubilee Club Eisenstadt decided to design a project
underpinning the Federation theme 2003 - 2005 "Women Building Peace".
They are planning an educational project aiming to train children aged
8 - 10 towards a better understanding of different religions. Together
with schools, the club has worked out the following plan:
a.) First children learn as much as possible about the principles and rituals of their own and other religions.
b.) Guided by their religion teachers the children illustrate one of the major rituals of their own religion.
c.) Rainbow scarves are painted.
d.)
A play is performed, based on the biblical narrative of
Noah's Ark "All in the Same Boat ". Finally they all sing their
"Rainbow Song"( a peace song)
The presentation of this project
on April 14th 2005 is under the patronage of Hans Nissel ,
Governor, and Ma. Franz Steindl, deputy Governor of Burgenland .
Club
Eisenstadt is not only providing the project design, but it is also
financing the participating children's food and travel expenses and any
material needed.
All the participating religious groups will be
rewarded not only with Montessori Peace Games, but also with materials
for their religion classes. All paid for by Club Eisenstadt .
The profits from this final presentation will be used to support the furnishing of classrooms in a SOS Kinderdorf in Sri Lanka.
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ADVICE: What advice would you like to
give to the Secretary-General and the General Assembly to promote a
culture of peace and nonviolence during the second half of the Decade? |
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PARTNERSHIPS: What partnerships and
networks does your organization participate in, thus strengthening the
global movement for a culture of peace? |
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PLANS: What new engagements are
planned by your organization to promote a culture of peace and
nonviolence in the second half of the Decade (2005-2010)? |
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