Everyday Gandhis Project

The scholarship program is to provide opportunity for former child soldiers and war-affected youth to finish schooling interrupted by war and the challenges of taking of families. Non-traditional learners such a adult ex-combatant women and children are also included. This education includes high school, university, literacy school and permaculture. Scholarship recipients are supported with supervision, tutoring, trauma healing, medical care, family visits and specialized training in such skills as permaculture, trauma healing, conflict transformation and community building. They are required to actively engage in community service. Applicants from the united states can apply provided they meet the same criteria as our west african participants.

The program area of media involves the production and dissemination of media in various forms including documentary films, training videos, newsletters, research, writing groups and web. The accomplishments include three feature-length documentaries in production, a website: www.everydaygandhis.org, a quarterly newsletter published in the usa, a book of letters and photographs, participation in a writing matrix linking stories of peace and healing, publication of essays and research and the gifting of still photographs and dvd's to local communities and villages.

The program area of traditional ceremonies brings together deeply divided communities for unity, reconcilement, healing and future planning. The accomplishments were traditional mourning feasts, traditional land cleansing ceremonies, human/elephant reconcilement ceremonies in africa and ceremonies and debriefings in the usa for training and planning. This is currently combined with the community reconciliation program.