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Archive: February, 2009

  • Thursday, February 26th, 2009

    Child Soldiers returned to families

    “I am back from the bush today after a difficult mission. It was not easy to reach this group of Mai Mai who live 197km from Beni, with bad conditions on the road. The General and Officers of the Mai Mai were waiting to meet us and agreed to let us return forty children back [...]

  • Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

    Young Visionaries Project Details

    “Dear Peace Direct, We have decided to work with 3 groups; from Colombo, Ampara (East) and Anuradhapura (North Central) with 5 -6 Young Visionaries per group. The three groups will undergo three sets of four day training workshops on the following themes: 1) Conflict Transformation and Peace building 2) Project designing and implementing 3) Facilitating Project duration [...]

  • Thursday, February 12th, 2009

    The road is long but we are not giving up

    “The road is long but we are not giving up. Yesterday I spoke to the media and told them we were not going to let people hijack and take over the process. Women and children in Somalia deserve a better future and we will not give up on them. A Prime Minister is to be [...]