Step forward for peace education in Zimbabwe
Friends of Hlekweni have joined with others for a peace education project
The Quaker charity Friends of Hlekweni has joined with a number of other charities and faith groups in a peace education pilot project in Zimbabwe.
Friends of Hlekweni has joined the Brethren in Christ Church, Bulawayo Quakers, Mennonites and Grace to Heal, a local faith-based peacebuilding organisation, on a new advisory council that will oversee the project.
The Peaceful Schools Project will be run by a smaller management committee, and will be led locally by Sibonokuhle Ncube of the Brethren in Christ Church. Four secondary schools and five or six primary schools will take part. Several of the schools supported by Friends of Hlekweni will be invited to participate.
The project will focus on ‘peace clubs’. These are volunteer groups of students who meet to consider ways to become peace ambassadors in their school. These students are trained to offer peer mediation for fellow students and will work to address bullying or discrimination in schools.
