| Peace Clubs Since its inception, African Projects for Peace and Love Initiatives Inc. NFP (APPLI) has been engaging various ways, methods and means to promote grassroots Peacebuilding in the continent of Africa. In addition to developing the Structured Education for Peace (SEP)and Socio-Cultural Adjustment Programs (SAP), APPLI has conducted several street peace rallies and launched several peace clubs at various levels of the grassroots communities. APPLI believes that everyone has got a link to the grassroots and is therefore making efforts to reach everyone at the grassroots for proactive Peacebuilding. To learn more about each of these peace clubs, what they do, and how you can become an active member, please click any of the links below. Individual, collective and corporate membership are welcome. Please click here to download a membership application form. African Children of Peace Club The African Children of Peace Club, with its theme of "Catch Them Young for Peace," is dedicated to children in nursery and primary schools. The object of this club is to transform the African Children of Conflict to peace instead of violence. APPLI believes that the idea of entrenching children in old conflicts and ancestral hatred should stop. Adults should allow the children to grow their own sense of how peaceful they want their world to be and stop forcing upon those innocent minds our "failed" approach to global violence. It should no longer be "si pacem, para bellum; but "si pacem, para pacem." It is the man of peace that has a future, not the man of violence. If we insist on teaching hatred and violence to children, whether through religion or ideology, we are indirectly closing the future of humanity as a global family. Please complete a membership application form. The KAIROS Peace Club KAIROS, a Greek New Testament word, means "God's Appointed Time for Peace on Earth." We dedicate KAIROS Peace Clubs to academic institutions: junior and senior high, colleges and universities. We are calling on all youths in our schools that this is the time to build and not the time to destroy. Please complete a membership application form. The KAYERO Peace Club KAYERO in Yoruba, a language spoken by the entire South-West of Nigeria, means "Let Peace Prevail on Earth." KAYERO is targeted at the grassroots communities, religious institutions and socio-cultural organizations. Please complete a membership application form. The Youth Peace Alliance Club (Y-SPAC) Dedicated to all youths and adults in or outside religious or academic environment, Y-PAC attempts to create an alliance among a people who want to stand in solidarity with one another for peace, both in their immediate, near and far communities. Members of this club wears a silver ring upon which the word SPAC is engraved as a mark of their identification that they prefer peace to violence at all times. Members of this club have resolved not to partake in violence, be onlookers of violence nor paid to be entertained by violence. They are opinionated about how to deal with violence in their environment and the world around them. Please complete a membership application form. To download the Y-PAC to the Six Schools Districts in Lagos State Nigeria, please click Y-PACLAGOS The New World Peace Legacy Club Through this forum, APPLI aspires to promote universal peace as an ideal alternative to global violence that is threatening human existence on earth. Let's all work to leave a legacy of peace on earth. The theme of this club is "May the legacy of violence disappear on earth. May the legacy of peace come in its place. Please complete a membership application form. The Intercessors for Peace Club The past belongs to the intercessor and the future is never closed to him or her. Though aware of the unpleasant past, an intercessor is not beclouded by the past to the point of losing hope for the better future. Members of the intercessors for peace club have taken it upon themselves to intercede fro every nation or community that is experience war, conflict and deadly violence through prayers, activism and by speaking out for peace. Please complete a membership application form. City Chapters and Affiliates City chapters and affiliates of APPLI are founded in the USA, UK and other places with a view to start new conversation and dialogue with the West and the rest of humanity on the need for grassroots peace in Africa. It is hoped that in this way a new world mission of peace might evolve and that appropriate resources will be channeled to Africa for sustainable peace. Please complete a membership application form. Nehemiah Youth Economic Empowerment Program We have reckoned and rightly so that any peace which does not provide economic empowerment is no peace at all. It is our desire to build African youths of goodwill and pull down walls of tribal hatred, religious riots, political dichotomy, structured violence, decadence and waste. Our desire to make a difference in the life of African youths have led us to introduce the Nehemiah Small Scale Youth Economic Empowerment Program. The idea upon which this program is based is that higher institutions such as the polytechnics, technical colleges, business schools, and universities will design and develop small scale industrial, business and professional opportunities, package them and market them to their graduates. We believe that as this programs develops, our higher institutions will begin to specialize in specific need areas of the community and will create the resourcefulness to meet such needs. A steering committee was inaugurated at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, (FUTA), on August 30, 2004 comprising five Heads of Departments and five students nominated from the five schools that made up the university. Please click here for more information about the Nehemiah Youth Economic Empowerment Program and the steering committee. Please complete a membership application form. Peace Education Centers The idea behind establishing peace education centers is to provide a forum where members of the clusters of grassroots peace and love clubs could mix, mingle and interact for larger effect and impact. Though the structured peace education offered at this level of interaction is less formal, yet it will go a long way in helping to cultivate the new society of knowledge for peace and love among the various ethnic and religious groups in the African diverse communities. Workshops, seminars, conferences, and provision of resources for skills in peacemaking and Peacebuilding are parts of structured peace education offered at this level. This level will also support to a great extent, the idea of socio-cultural adjustment programs being developed by A.P.P.L.I. Governments will be encouraged to interact with the community of peace at this level for the dissemination of peace and advocacy programs. Please complete a membership form. |
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