Women and Families in Peacebuilding: Catalysts for Transformative Change – Celebrating Grassroots Leadership for Lasting Peace
Global Peace Women and the Global Peace Foundation launched the Women and Families in Peacebuilding: Catalysts for Transformative Change campaign to celebrate the inspiring women who are making an incredible impact in peacebuilding, community transformation, and service.
Empowering Families: The Role of Values Education in Shaping Africa’s Renaissance
The family remains a cornerstone of moral and social development, even amidst urbanization and globalization. GPW and GPF partnered to create The Parents’ Guide to Values Education in the Home Curriculum.
Rooted in the principles of Ubuntu, this guide empowers parents, caregivers, and faith leaders to nurture the next generation with respect, compassion, responsibility, and integrity. By encouraging active family participation, we can strengthen our communities, address modern parenting challenges, and ensure that children grow into ethical leaders.
Solidarity Hands: Women’s Group Helps Families in Paraguay
“Solidarity Hands” is helping make a difference in Paraguay. Solidarity Hands is a collaborative initiative that engages women from Global Peace Women and Global Peace Foundation in monthly volunteer service projects that provide support to vulnerable women, families, and communities in Paraguay.
Teaching Our Children to Grow through Challenges
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. – Seneca We grow through challenges. It is a fundamental principle. If we want to grow in any particular area, we have to be challenged. If we are not, we are not going to grow. If someone...
Education for Life
In nature, a butterfly struggles to emerge from a cocoon. It is difficult and painful. Yet, were the butterfly cut out of its cocoon, without the vigorous physical exercise required to get out of the cocoon, the butterfly’s wings remain weak, brittle and it is...
Learning about Reconciliation in the Family
“The transformative power of the vision to create One Family under God is found in the fundamental truth that all people, regardless of their differences are spiritual beings who share a common heritage in the one Creator.” —Dr. Hyun Jin P. Moon The following story is...
Bringing Family Values into the Classroom: Empowering Students in Nepal
Family plays an essential role in the development of children in societies around the world. In Nepal for example, family is integrated into many social structures. One young woman is even helping to include the familial perspective in the education system to support...
Celebrating Chuseok: A Korean Tradition for Generations
"Korean people are full of Jung (feelings of love, feelings of intimacy). This is our unique contribution to humanity. This is something that we should be celebrating; that we should be proud of. Because the world is watching us... Let us dare to dream the greatest...
The Extended Family: A Fading Korean Treasure
Originally posted on January 30, 2014. Updated on January 25, 2019. In 2014, The Guardian published an article on the rising number of elderly in Korea who are living in poverty. The writer visited Lee Yeong-sun, an 82-year-old Korean War veteran and his wife, who...