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Generations for Peace Ghana has launched its fourth peacebuilding program which aims to instill in children the art of living in harmony and maintaining peace in their immediate environment, at school and in their communities.
The start of the implementation process comes after the selected delegates were trained in December 2019 in a new component of the program, social and emotional learning. This new addition will be the focal point of this year’s peacebuilding program, as the sessions are designed for participants to understand their emotions in a variety of situations and contexts.
About two hundred target group members, one hundred women and one hundred men aged 7 to 9, from the De Youngsters International School located in Adenta, a suburb of the Greater Accra region were selected to benefit from the implementation of the program. The participants come from different socio-cultural and economic backgrounds. The selection was made in 2020 before the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic which resulted in the eventual implementation of the Social and Emotional Learning, Sport and Arts for Peace program being halted.
Much like other successful peacebuilding programs implemented by GFP-Ghana, this year’s program will use two peacebuilding vehicles, sport and the arts.
The implementation team, which includes PFM pioneers who were trained in Amman, Jordan in October / November 2019, and trained delegates, the majority of whom are teachers from the host school, will guide participants through twenty well-designed sessions. The implementation phase of the program is expected to last around 5 months, which started in July 2021 and is expected to end in December 2021.
The goal at the end of the program is to see increased respect among participants, increased tolerance among participants, and improved social and emotional skills among participants.
GFP – Ghana expects to achieve the demonstration of respect between program participants and other students, the demonstration of tolerance between program participants and friends as well as other students in the school and the overall improvement in performance. social and emotional competence among friends and other students in the school. The overall goal is to reduce bullying among students in the school.
GFP – Ghana has implemented similar peacebuilding programs in the past at St. Peters Mission School and the University of Ghana, Legon, one of the programs that ultimately won a Samsung Generations For Peace Award for Impact in 2015, in Amman, Jordan.
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