MasterPeace 2014

Commercialization of love, do you agree?

Image Credit: By Adam 
First appeared here http://gulfnews.com/opinions/cartoons/commercialisation-of-love-1.980168 

Just DO It!

"What can we do to promote world peace?" "Go home and love your family." ~~MotherTeresa

If you want to make a difference in the world, start with the community you are living in, and MasterPeace gives you the chance to start the change chain in the world. That is exactly what people in Gambia, Philippines, Kenya did, they started their journey with MasterPeace inspiration to spread peace in their own community.

In Gambia, our MasterPeace Club Gambia celebrated the international day of Peace in the
garden of the Town Council. Drama performance about environmental war was presented in collaboration with the Green Tech.

 Poetry reading about peace featured the celebration attended by around 150 persons. The
festival hosted different musical entertainments and acrobatics  involving various Gambian music bands and solo artists representing  their own communities.

 The artistic groups ranged from Afro-manding  music, Reggae dance hall, and traditional music from Pa Mboob, Gambia´s  Stevie Wonder, Doctor Shaka, Hard Breaka, The Bright Star Band and lastly The Kambeng Band from Brikama.

In Kenya, MasterPeacers gathered people at Mathare  slum grounds one of the most hit areas in Nairobi by post election  violence. They served their community by collecting garbage and
cleaning-up the slum, symbolizing cleaning of vices that lead to
conflict.

With the participation of Teens of Hope initiative, they also  planted 45 seedlings in the slum. They also, organized a football tournament along with different musical performance, to involve more  people and share their dream and peace culture.

In Philippines, Students of Tagoloan Community  College in Baluarte, decided to start a MasterPeace club inside their  university. The students are majoring in Tourism and Hospitality

Management. Therefore, they decided in celebrating the International Day of Peace in the best way they know, and in three very innovative ways;  ReciPeace, where peace was promoted through innovation of international  recipes which revolve around the dual theme of peace and nutrition, this included artistic bread showpiece, main course preparations, cake
decorating, fruit and vegetable carving.

Judges considered the creativity of the contestants to promote “international peace” in the
menu as well as the “nutrition” that it provides.

MasterPeace (masterpeace.org) gives you the opportunity to become a co-owner, by obtaining a license to develop MasterPeace activities in the frame of a MasterPeace Club.

MasterPeace Clubs are the arms we are using to encourage dialogue, togetherness and social sustainability throughout small local neighborhoods and global regions of international conflict, and via involving Music and Art in our celebrations for peace.

MasterPeace Club will foster your own creative peace-building initiatives. Join the change Chain by starting your own MasterPeace Club in your country, city, or neighborhood.

If you want to start the change, Mail us at: clubs@masterpeace.org or download our Start-up guide to give you a more clear idea about us, and join our global grassroots movement!

The Dutch National Postcode Lottery has announced on Februari 9th  that IKV Pax Christi (Founding Partner of MasterPeace) has been chosen as new beneficiary. 

At the ‘Goed Geld Gala’, IKV Pax Christi and MasterPeace were awarded a joint grant of 500.000 Euros per year for the next 5 years, for peace building activities worldwide.

IKV Pax Christi will use half of the grant for its general peace building work and the other half for the development of MasterPeace, as international bottom up peace movement.

This joint grant is an example of the co-creation that MasterPeace stands for: Creating Peace.

Together. The ‘Goed Geld Gala’ is an annual initiative of the Dutch National Postcode Lottery. 

Thanks to the 2.5million members of the Postcode Lottery good causes can continue their important work and start new projects. 

Half of each lot of the Postcode Lottery goes directly to charities in the field of development cooperation, human rights, nature, environment and social cohesion in the Netherlands.