Dear Supporters of Generations For Peace and #HerStepsCount,
We cannot begin to thank you enough for your support for women and girls through #HerStepsCount. Generations For Peace will continue to fight tirelessly for women and their ability to climb their own “mountains.” Women play a crucial, yet underappreciated, role in their communities and peacebuilding. Lama, in climbing and summiting higher and higher mountains and preparing to climb Mount Everest, represents the ability of women to overcome their obstacles and achieve their goals, proving their worth and contributing meaningfully to their societies.
This campaign alone has raised $2,706 for Generations For Peace’s programming in 50 countries around the world, thanks to your contributions. Using your donations, we can help give a voice to women looking to make their mark in peacebuilding at the grassroots level through mentoring women peacebuilders.
Lama is determined to continue showing the world what youth and women – particularly those from the Middle East – are capable of, and would like to say:
"We can climb the highest mountains one step at time. Each step we take makes a difference. I cannot thank you enough for all the support and donations for this campaign. Remember #HerStepsCount, because your steps count as well.
Please continue to follow HerStepsCount as Lama continues her journey on Instagram: herstepscount"
Once again, thank you all for your contributions to and support of Generations For Peace. As we train youth peacebuilders around the globe, and encourage them to train others in their communities, we reference our mission with three simple words: “Pass it on!”
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Dear supporters of HerStepsCount,
We wanted to update you on our progress since our last communication. We were excited in March to highlight the work of #HerStepsCount via International Women's Day. With that announcement alone, we were able to raise $570 over the course of a few days!
It is thanks to supporters like you that Generations For Peace is able to continue to implement global programmes that empower women to build peace in their local communities, and that allow women like Lama to reach even greater heights.
To learn more about our programming, check out our website and social media below.
On behalf of Generations For Peace, thank you again for your support of HerStepsCount and our programming.
With gratitude,
The Generations For Peace Team
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Happy March from Generations For Peace! We have two exciting updates to share with you:
1) Generations For Peace Earns #29 Ranking in the 2019 Top 500 NGOs in the World
Generations For Peace is now ranked as #29 in the "Top 500 NGOs in the World" by Geneva-based NGO Advisor! We're also the #2 anti-violence and #3 peacebuilding organization in the world. This is important global recognition for the extraordinary efforts and achievements of our GFP volunteers around the world, striving for positive change in very difficult contexts. And it’s a huge credit to all the donors and partners who support us. You can read the full press release here.
2) Introducing the #HerStepsCount Challenge in honor of International Women's Day
In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8th, join Generations For Peace as we compete for one of four spots in GlobalGiving’s 2019 Girl Fund. By supporting our #HerStepsCount campaign between today and March 14th, you will be providing women and girls globally with resources to build peace in their local communities through GFP programs. Plus, funds we raise together during this period will be eligible for bonuses from GlobalGiving to enable us to do even more!
To spread the word, we call on you to participate in our #HerStepsCount challenge: take a video of yourself taking 5 steps then upload to your social media channels using the hashtag #HerStepsCount. Donate $10 to the campaign and then call on 5 friends to participate in the challenge, as well. When sharing, please consider doing so with people who are new to Generations For Peace, so we spread the message of women and girls in peacebuilding far and wide.
Thank you in advance for your contribution! Your donations will help us empower more women with the skills they need to become leaders in their local communities and pass on a more peaceful world to future generations. #PassItOn
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Having climbed Nepal’s Mount Lobuche and Russia’s Mount Elbrus – two of the world’s tallest and most difficult mountains – in 2018, Lama is continuing in 2019 to draw attention to the fact that women are not only capable but also willing to face any challenge, no matter the nature. In order to highlight this, she is now looking to be the first Middle Eastern woman to summit Everest, the world’s tallest peak.
Building peace is a challenge that we face globally and locally every day. However, when everyone – men and women, alike – is given the opportunity to contribute, engage, and lead with their own skills, in their own communities, by their own passions, that challenge can be overcome. However, when we draw lines of division between us, quieting those who have the potential to lend a hand to the peacebuilding process, we hinder the progress and limit the ways in which conflict can be transformed in scales large and small around the world.
Women are too often quieted – forced into the outer edges of the peacebuilding conversation. Friends of Europe earlier this year shared statistics regarding Women, Peace, and Security, which revealed the still minimal role women play in peacebuilding on a global scale. As of June 2016, only 22% of national parliamentarians are women; from 2008 to 2012, women were signatories in only 2 of the 61 peace agreements; and between 1990 and 2010, only 92 of almost 600 peace agreements even referenced women.
As an integral leader of an international peacebuilding organisation based in Jordan, Lama knows first-hand that women play a vital role in efforts to build lasting peace on both global and local levels. In fact, when women are included in peacebuilding processes, there is a 20% increase in the probability of an agreement lasting at least 2 years, and a 35% increase in the probability of an agreement lasting at least 15 years. So why aren’t they consistently more central to the conversation?
In continuing her efforts to promote women’s roles in peacebuilding through highlighting the challenges they are able to overcome, Lama will set out to climb Everest in Spring 2019.
Four months after climbing Nepal’s Mount Lobuche, Lama has now summited Russia’s Mount Elbrus – Europe’s highest and the world’s tenth-highest peak. With two of the world’s tallest and most difficult mountains under her belt, Lama is continuing to draw attention to the fact that women are not only capable, but also willing, to face any challenge, no matter the nature.
Building peace is a challenge that we face globally and locally every day. However, when everyone – men and women, alike – is given the opportunity to contribute, engage, and lead with their own skills, in their own communities, by their own passions, that challenge can be overcome. However, when we draw lines of division between us, quieting those who have the potential to lend a hand to the peacebuilding process, we hinder the progress and limit the ways in which conflict can be transformed in scales large and small around the world.
Women are too often quieted – forced into the outer edges of the peacebuilding conversation. Friends of Europe earlier this year shared statistics regarding Women, Peace, and Security, which revealed the still minimal role women play in peacebuilding on a global scale. As of June 2016, only 22% of national parliamentarians are women; from 2008 to 2012, women were signatories in only 2 of the 61 peace agreements; and between 1990 and 2010, only 92 of almost 600 peace agreements even referenced women.
As an integral leader of an international peace-building organisation based in Jordan, Lama knows first-hand that women play a vital role in efforts to build lasting peace on both global and local levels. In fact, when women are included in peacebuilding processes, there is a 20% increase in the probability of an agreement lasting at least 2 years, and a 35% increase in the probability of an agreement lasting at least 15 years. So why aren’t they consistently more central to the conversation?
In continuing her efforts to promote women’s roles in peacebuilding through highlighting the challenges they are able to overcome, Lama has now set her eyes on Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, which she is preparing to climb in 2019.
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