Recognizing our common bond and supporting peace

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Published on Wednesday, 05 November 2014 11:44
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r33 November, 2014 Peace starts within each of us, and our relationships in our communities.

Makoso Dede has been building peace in his neighbourhood of Ngaliema, in Kinshasa, DR Congo, for 12 years. In 2002, Makoso took a CFSC-supported training program offered by Kinshasa Quakers. The program equips volunteers to work together, in groups of five, to resolve and prevent disputes among neighbours and to offer practical peace education workshops on everything from how elections work to dealing with trauma.
Makoso Dede (centre) took Project Muinda’s peace training "First for myself, and secondly for others. I'm more patient today." He sees positive impacts in his family life, and the conflicts that his local “peace cell” has helped resolve. Photo credit: Matthew Legge
We share a common commitment with Kinshasa Quakers to end violence – in communities and between nations. With your support, people, like Makoso, respond to requests for help in conflicts between family members or landlords and tenants, keeping disputes out of dysfunctional courts and preventing them from escalating.

This is just one of the stories we are pleased to share with you this year about how your donations to CFSC are creating a more just and peaceful world.

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