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| An Action member giving a presentation to Danish Students |
For one and a half weeks now,
four of the Action Inter-Ethnic Youth Dialogue and Peaceful Reconciliation
Project have been in Denmark for an exchange visit that included an exchange
programme with the Danish Agents for Change, present the concept “Leadership
Without Positions” to the Danish schools and exchange ideas on the
possibility of coming up with an international youth volunteer programme under
SustainableEnergy. The visit, which was organized by SustainableEnergy, has
been one of the major stories of change witnessed in the peace initiative
started in Kibera in the last two years.
The Action members, upon landing
in Denmark, attended a two day seminar where both the Action members and the
Danish Agents for Change were taken through steps of making a joined
presentation for the benefit of their audiences. In the process of learning,
the session further buttressed the role of change agents, basically out of the
work the two are doing in the community. While the Danish Agents for Change
work on the effects of climate change in which they advise people to produce
only what is important for consumption, the Kenyan team has been involved with a
successful campaign communities co-existing peacefully in Kibera using dialogue
as a tool and creating awareness in the importance of voter education.
Several schools were visited in
Denmark between these times. The Kenyan Delegation took it upon them to carry out
elaborate stories of change, addressing the situation as it is in the Kenyan
state. The little that the peace ambassadors have pulled together in their work
was evaluated as a means of consolidating changes in the society. At one time,
the teachers audience in Denmark was impressed that the world has come to the
realization of what it can do to itself; a fact manifested by the two different
cultures and backgrounds fusing into one to form a working partnership in
Denmark. The major message being that people can do something within their
means to effect changes wherever they are.
Story By:
Ramogi Osewe
PMC Member
This project is funded by The European union
