Plato Games Inc. is proud to contribute monetary and occupational support to a Canadian charity organization that is making a difference in the lives of African children…
We foster learning of the ways of peacemaking and peacebuilding in children, families, schools and communities through education and skill development. We create simple spaces and places, virtual or structural, where conversations contributing to living in peace can be held; where all voices can be heard and everyone is welcome.
Global Peace Hut is a Canadian NGO that runs conflict resolution and peacemaking programs in Uganda, East Africa. through their local indigenous affiliate NGO Global Peace Hut-Uganda. GPH-U has a team of Ugandan peacemaking trainers who as young adults, work with students, teachers, schools, families and communities. They teach the ways of being a peacemaker in local language through folk stories, and storytelling, through puppetry, drama, games, art and music, activities, as well as circle sharing. Africa has a strong heritage of traditional wisdom around peacemaking and conflict resolution. They access the wisdom and spirit of Africa through connecting to these traditional ways and talking about them in the current context.
The schools and communities in which Global Peace Hut works have many families and orphans who have been displaced from their own communities as a result of a war in the north of the country that has lasted for 20 years. These children and youth do not know what it is like to live in peace, and extreme poverty and violence are part of their daily existence. They have experienced a great deal of trauma and continue to live with much violence in their lives. For healing to take place they need to feel safe to tell their own stories and have others who care listen to them.
Our peacemaking training team has taught conflict resolution/ peacemaking work in more than 18 schools. Here’s what some people we have worked with, have to say about Global Peace Hut’s peacemaking programs: (Quotes used with permission.)
“…This peacemaking training, It changes the human being from the inside out.” - Hellen Akello, Headmistress of Bugolobi Literacy School, Kampala
“…then our visitors came and they teach us about that peacemaker. I learned about peace. Then I started to change at school. All the children was hating me. They started to like me. That time was a hard time, because I was knowing in my heart nobody could forgive me at school. But I apologized to them. Every child was there. They forgave me. They gave me a leader. Now I’m assistant head boy. Peace is happiness. When you got a peace, it’s happiness.” - Vicent Walujo, Student at Bugolobi Literacy School, Kampala
“Caning does not train a child, but this conflict resolution, this peacemaking, this talking dialogue helps a child to become a better person.” - Catherine Mugerwa, Inspector, Ministry of Education, Uganda.