Fesseha Fre Weri, a Canadian originally from Eritrea, tells of the choice he was faced with as a young man - to take up a gun or work for peace. He was speaking in Caux, Switzerland in 2003.

On March 11th, young adults asked questions about Indigenous people to Marie Émilie Lacroix, an Innu native of Mashteuiatsh, Quebec.

Wadiaa Khoury shared with us her work in Lebanon: encouraging educators to bring social change.

Participants in the National Consultation, have created opportunities for local groups to meet regularly together. Occasions have happened in Montreal, Toronto and Edmonton. 

At the beginning of January YiYi Datar and Ellen Ostero, both of Edmonton, Alberta, flew to Porto Alegre to take part in the Gathering of the Americas. Lewis Cardinal, Chair of the Global Indigenous Dialogue also presented through Zoom. Canada has taken part in such gatherings over many years including the one in 2014. Since this gathering, planning the future is taking place with a Zoom call on March 7th to seek a common future together and what it might look like.
The report below is written by the planning team of the Encuentro and we thank
them for it.

From January 8 – 12^th , Educators from around the world were on a transformative journey at the Initiatives of Change Conference Centre at Asia Plateau, Panchgani, India. One of IofC Canada’s board members travelled from Syria to participate. Iman AlGhafari travelled with a group from Lebanon. Below are her reflections on their Values-Driven Education Gathering.