March 2015
ODEM Celebrates International Peace Day Ana Pamela Sotomayor, ODEM - Dominican Republic scorp@ifmsard.org
On September 21th 2014, SCORP members of ODEM Dominican Republic organized a concert and bucket-list wall mural to commemorate World Peace Day 2014. Under the slogan “Paint Peace,” various artists from disciplines of plastic art, music and literature offered their talents to disseminate the idea of peace in the Dominican Republic. Members designed a promotional banner with a child making a symbolic peace graffiti, which was promoted in social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter).
implementing an immunization outreach campaign for Lazos Foundation, targeting children in the Los Rios sector who endure violence. Overall, this campaign successfully involved the Dominican community and facilitated a national dialogue about the meaning of peace to each individual as well as society as a whole.
Also, members participated in a concert on La Espiral, a local business in the Colonial Zone of Santo Domingo. They raised over $100 USD for our World Human Rights Day campaign. This money would go towards
Africa Arising Florence Mwende Kiragu, MSAKE - Kenya ra.scorp.africa@gmail.com
I had the pleasure of attending the 10th ARM in The Pearl of Africa, Kampala Uganda. I had many expectations of what the ARM would be like and had conjured this glamorous, perfect, well-coordinated event that would blow my mind. It surpassed my expectations. It was a small intimate gathering of the most solution driven individuals I have ever met. It might not have been the most glamorous event but it was the most heartfelt. It www.ifmsa.org
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was a group of young brilliant African minds creating sustainable solutions for Africa. It was young Africans working for the future of Africa! As the SCORP RA for Africa, I spent most of my time in the company of “Peace Stingers.” I wanted to motivate participants to exploit their intellectual and creative brilliance to come up with solutions to most of the Peace