MuCAARD, the Muslim Christian Agency for Advocacy Relief and Development (www.mucaard-uk.org or www.mucaard.org), the charity with which I worked is made up of the Secretariat and 4 member teams- POM, RIAP, BISAP and CoSEED.
MuCAARD member team 1- POM in Balindong - offices
Our accommodation for the first night
The team
The Lombayao (the area) Ittihad Coop - Coop shop. Set up by locals with the help of MuCAARD team POM. There is a daycare centre too. At the time they were working on a business plan to sell the local Maranao coffee to larger markets outside of Balindong.
Culture of Peace training
Somie (the trainer in this photo) is often called on by local goverment oficials to help in peace building/conflict situations for his knowledge and experience. He started in Mucaard at the tender age of 19, built on experince and is now a trainer himself.
Training is mixed and calls on local women too, breaking down cultural gender barriers and building stonger communties through it. Mucaard is making real change.
What creates a Culture of Peace?
It begins at the personal level
The 2 Donkeys- Conflict resolution and building a culture of peace and cooperation, all in one simple drawing.
The session was split into groups fro workshop sessions and they were asked towork on different themes. This man (very sweet) and his group had the theme of undertsanding. His diagram represented the lack of equality and understanding. There is no equal share of resources.
He wanted me to relay a message- The bananas represent the resources, the big man=Europe, the small man=Mindanao. Why does Europe have so many resources when it has so many fewer people than the third world? Why are resources not shared? What about Mindanao and the Maranao Muslims? They are kept small, kept from growing whilst the West grows big and strong.
MuCAARD member team 1- POM in Balindong - offices
Our accommodation for the first night
The team
The Lombayao (the area) Ittihad Coop - Coop shop. Set up by locals with the help of MuCAARD team POM. There is a daycare centre too. At the time they were working on a business plan to sell the local Maranao coffee to larger markets outside of Balindong.
Culture of Peace training
Somie (the trainer in this photo) is often called on by local goverment oficials to help in peace building/conflict situations for his knowledge and experience. He started in Mucaard at the tender age of 19, built on experince and is now a trainer himself.
Training is mixed and calls on local women too, breaking down cultural gender barriers and building stonger communties through it. Mucaard is making real change.
What creates a Culture of Peace?
It begins at the personal level
The 2 Donkeys- Conflict resolution and building a culture of peace and cooperation, all in one simple drawing.
The session was split into groups fro workshop sessions and they were asked towork on different themes. This man (very sweet) and his group had the theme of undertsanding. His diagram represented the lack of equality and understanding. There is no equal share of resources.
He wanted me to relay a message- The bananas represent the resources, the big man=Europe, the small man=Mindanao. Why does Europe have so many resources when it has so many fewer people than the third world? Why are resources not shared? What about Mindanao and the Maranao Muslims? They are kept small, kept from growing whilst the West grows big and strong.
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