At ACWAY, we believe that young people play a critical role in initiating change and translating international issues into local community activities.
There are over 300 ACWAY Fellows who have delivered over 200 interfaith and intercultural activities in over 85 countries, engaging over 1700 people.
ACWAY activity can be conducted in many different ways and forms which is up to Fellow’s creativity. An ACWAY activity is:
In the past five years, ACWAY fellows conducted educational activities (training, dialogues, workshops, roundtables), online and real-life campaigns, and a variety of social activities (music festivals, sports events, exhibitions). Click through to read some of our Fellow’s activities!
LA serious problem in Stockholm is the city’s increasing cultural and spatial segregation, as well as the lack of natural meeting places for young people of different backgrounds. In order to change this, the inter–religious girls’ group aims at bringing together girls from different cultural, religious and economic backgrounds. By means of normative critical and …
To bring the “A Global Citizen Affair” Dinner Party Series to life for the Jabari Inspires TV Show, I convened 7 friends and colleagues of varyingnationalities, cultures, and faiths who all currently call Nairobi, Kenya home.Each guest was thoughtfully selected based on his/her ability to share his/her opinions confidently and intellectually. Additionally, everyone was encouraged to …
People from my community were invited to participate in a whole day activity where they got the chance to grasp what it’s like to live in Palestine. Because of its symbolism, the activity was held at the Syrian-Lebanese club, a place founded by our Arab ancestors who had just arrived on ships in Argentina.As soon …
The project aimed to bring a new perceptive to the students and encourage dialogue for peace and harmony. It was to promote the recognition by students of value of similarities among multiculturalism and faiths to bring peace and co-existence. Further they were given a chance to devise solutions for peace building in conflict prone areas …
Dance Off the Differences was an interactive intercultural initiative held on 20 August at Caspian Business Plaza in Baku, Azerbaijan. The project aimed to bring young people together to explore cultural diversity through music and dance, two universal forms of expression that transcend language barriers. Recognising that discussing cultural identity can sometimes feel intimidating, the …
The activity was implemented in the University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil, as a part of the ACWAY’s Facebook Diversity Campaign (FDC). Being composed by tenundergradutes of different fields of study – International Affairs, Law, Economics, Chemical Engineering and Political Science – and of different regions of the country, the aim of the acitvity was to …
A Programme is kicked off with the 58 enthusiastic Hindu, Muslim, Christian and Jain Community youth participants of the SNMV School Scouts and Guides, Coimbatore,Tamilnadu State, india. From 06-08-2016 to 07-08-2016.The main reason of this project is to make an Interfaith and Inter culture harmony inthe different religious youngsters mind. The participants are aged between …
Interfaith dialogue remains a sensitive and less-discussed topic in the country, requiring a thoughtful and long-term approach to build understanding and sustainable impact. The initiative was designed to establish a structured pipeline that strengthens knowledge, dialogue, and engagement around interfaith issues while contributing to positive social change.Recognising the importance of reaching all age groups, the …
Approximately 170 participants were students from diverse backgrounds, including university, college, madrasa (Islamic religious institute), Bengali medium, and English medium. They had all come together with one objective in mind: to find common ground between people, no matter how different they were, and utilise this new-found familiarity in order to create a safer, more harmonious …
