During this holiday season, we are thankful for all the opportunities we have to work with others to advance peace throughout this wounded world.  Like many other North American non-profit organizations, we have been deeply affected by the financial turmoil that besets the USA. All of our domestic and global programs find themselves making difficult and painful decisions about staffing and publications. During this gift-giving season, would you like to contribute to Friends Peace Teams in honor of your loved ones in lieu of gifts?  Read more about our Holiday Gift Giving Program.

"The HROC (Healing and Rebuilding Our Communities) is a community based program developed in Burundi and Rwanda, and now Kenya. HROC brings together people from different ethnic groups or other different identities where there has been a conflict situation and people have experienced trauma. Because of the success of the HROC program in Africa, we, the Peace Building en Las Américas Working Group of Friends Peace Teams, decided to expand the program for possible use in Colombia."

Videos from Friends Peace Teams activities in Indonesia. Courtesy of Reid Harvey

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