The Uganda Training Initiative comes as a result of the three months spend in Uganda in early 2010 completing the 2009/2010 Peace Exchange. Ross traveled across the country, visiting nearly 30 schools, orphanages, and community groups delivering The Peace Exchange art-for-peace workshop. Ross worked with almost 3,000 students in those three months spreading knowledge and tools for actively participating in creating peace.
Near the end of our time in Uganda, Ross met Samuel Kibinga, Executive Director of the Ugandan non-profit National Forum of People Living With HIV/AIDS. In there discussions, Samuel proposed bringing a CPP team back to Kampala, the capital, to lead a training initiative for 50 community leaders.
Our vision, is to take a small team back to Uganda, East Africa later this year to facilitate a four-day train-the-trainer residential retreat. We will partner with the Ugandan non-profit National Forum of People Living With HIV/AIDS. This collaboration serves as a model with significant potential to establish CPP hubs in countries outside the U.S. This is a major goal of ours.
Goals:
- Equip 50 Trainers with skills and resources for leading Create Peace Projects and creating peace hubs
- Support Trainers in creating peace in communities using Create Peace practices and exercises
- Prepare and support Trainers in facilitating Peace Exchange in Ugandan Schools
- Provide art supplies to include 500,000 students in a 2011 Peace Exchange
- Facilitate a North ~ South National Peace Exchange
- Prepare for and launch an East African Peace Exchange expansion into six surrounding countries in 2012 and beyond.
For information on sponsorship opportunities, please send an email to info@createpeaceproject.org. Subject: Uganda Training 2010
Uganda 2010 Budget
Notes from Samuel regarding this Initiative:
“This training workshop will draw participants from five main regions of Uganda (North, East, West, Central and Middle West). There will be young people between the ages 15 to 35 years. Each region will be bringing 10 participants. This will be a workshop setting with a lot of practical work. The three-day residential workshop will be in Kampala city. Invitations shall be made by People Empowered Now and Tomorrow (PENAT), a youth based initiative currently operating in the central part of Uganda. Topics to be covered are to be selected by Create Peace Project in America, which will also provide the facilitators who will be joined by the Ugandan team of facilitators. To sustain this project after the workshop, the participants will be tasked to establish Create Peace Forums in their respective regions and enroll more members. Create Peace Project will facilitate this initiative.”
