“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 40 children back to their [...]
Archive: February 2009
Child soldiers returned to families
26 February 2009Young Visionaries project details
18 February 2009“Dear Peace Direct, We have decided to work with three groups; from Colombo, Ampara (East) and Anuradhapura (North Central) with five to six Young Visionaries per group. The three groups will undergo three sets of four-day training workshops on the following themes: 1) Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding 2) Project designing and implementing 3) Facilitating Project duration: 1 [...]
The road is long but we are not giving up
12 February 2009“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 [...]
