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!
This series of workshops was initiated as an educational project for young people to promote cultural and religious tolerance, peaceful conflict resolution, and human rights. Participants followed a learning process and acquired competences in the fields of intercultural learning, dialogue, and conflict transformation.Training consisted of a two-day workshop:May 23. Teambuilding. Presentation on the World’s Diversity. …
The Faiths In Tune – 5th London Interfaith Music Festival, held on 22 May 2016 at the British Museum, brought together an estimated 2,000–3,000 participants from diverse religious, cultural, and age groups. The festival featured an interfaith music programme, an interfaith fair with London-based organisations, and, for the first time, interactive music sessions, creating a …
This activity aims to create an environment where people from different ages and religious groups can trade their ideas and experiences related to Religion and Religious Discrimination in Costa Rica. Thirteen people older than 16 years old and younger than 70 years old, currently living in Costa Rica who identify themselves as part of different …
HandtoHeart, was a project, that brought together a team of people with different faiths and beliefs on a mission to help Syrian refugee women acrossIstanbul in selling their handcraft products. I co-founded HtoH and pitched in our project to Istanbul Crowdup 2016 event, as part of extending dialogue between Turkish community and Syrian community residing …
On Saturday, the 5th March, 2016, the program was carried out successfully at Federal Government College, Kiyawa, Jigawa State of Nigeria.The target group are the Safe School Initiative students (73 in number), who were traumatized by the Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria and are coming from Maiduguri, Yobe and Adamawa States. The objectives were to …
The idea of the project is for each student to approach someone they have never met before and ask if they can take their picture, and talk to them a bit to get some kind of background or story on but not limited to religion, peace, harmony and love. They can also take creative shots …
The project aimed to strengthen peace, intercultural understanding, and interfaith harmony in Ethiopia—a country known for its long-standing traditions of coexistence and tolerance. In response to growing global narratives of conflict and the misuse of religion, the initiative adopted an appreciative approach, focusing on positive practices and lessons that can help sustain peace and prevent …
The #InterfaithMix was a meet-up event that was organized in Lagos, Nigeria for a select group of seasoned young professionals to discuss the concept of interfaith harmony in commemoration of the World Interfaith Week which ran from February 1 – 7 2016.The Interfaith Mix which was on held on Friday, 5th February, 2016 also served …
On February 4 th and 5 th this 2016, Global Compassion’s team organizes a two days activities on interfaith dialogue for Peace leads by Clement Awanfe Ngueto (a Fellow of ACWAY; Morocco Dec. 11-16, 2015) and initiated to celebrate the UN World Interfaith Harmony Week which coincides this year with The Cameroon National Youth Week. …
