Building a Culture of Peace brought mutual understanding among young Christians and Muslims. The activity held by the Asia America Initiative, The Consular Corps of the Philippines and Artistikong Kabataan Foundation Philippines at the Maharlika Elementary School in Taguig Philppines on February 28, 2011; is an exemplar of making peace a way of living a fun and colorful life.
The activity had identified the interests of the children and nourished their pursuit for a peaceful world. Simultaenous workshops were done. There were 20 children per workshop.The garden of peace have taught the children to take care of the environment.The wall for peace rekindled the imagination and potential artistry of the children. The cultural dialogues let the children share their cultures particularly their religion and bridged the gaps between muslims and christians. The writers for peace and arts for peace have let the children express themselves and discover inner peace within them.
Much has been achieved by the team. Asia America Initiative have finally established the peace tree programs together with Artistikong Kabataan Philippines Inc., a local youth community based group which shares the same idea with AAI in attaining peace and sustainable development through the arts. Their partnership will be on a long term basis, as the sound of peace never fades, yet one must follow it. It is a break through in giving a qualitative input for peace building as its outcome will be deep rooted in the hearts of the children who will continue playing the sound of peace.
The Peace tree contains all the messages of how to attain peace in their own ways by everybody involved for the day. Everyone has put their personal measures, some days that they won;t bully their classmates, some says they will follow their parents and listen to their teachers, etc. These are simple things that has a big impact in changing the world.
Bai Rohaniza Sumndad-Usman, the country director of AAI Philippines and Anna Karina Jardin, the founder/president of AKP Philippines (and also the Committee Chair for arts, culture and music of AAI) would go for a race to 100 peace trees around Asia with the aim of rearing the next generation to stand for peace and practice non violence and refuse the pathways of corruption. The outputs of the event shall spread legacy of AAI's founder/president,Mr. Albert Santoli in building peace across the world.
"Peace is found when we relax our own minds and breathe, like grasshoppers sitting in a warm breeze to watch the grass grow or sea birds riding on choppy green waves on to sunlit sandy shores. We see our neighbors and fellow students as our brothers and sisters, sharing many hopes and dreams.", the exact message from our founder/president at AAI,Mr.Albert Santol; shall be long lived as many children says "I FINALLY FOUND MY HAPPINESS FOR THE FIRST TIME".
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