Category: Goldin Global Fellows

By: Gresë Sermaxhaj In this captivating piece, Santoshi Wagle, a 2022 Goldin Global Fellow, shares her experience and reflections leading an event for International Peace Day 2022 in her own country, Nepal.  Santoshi unpacks her challenges, the invaluable lessons she learned, and the profound impact she is making by using the skills she gained through… Continue reading Empowering her Community for Peace: A Goldin Global Fellow’s Journey

by Yusuph Masanja, Co-Facilitator, Goldin Global Fellows The Goldin Institute is proud to introduce the 2023 Goldin Global Fellows (English Language Cohort)! We invite you to learn about each of the outstanding Goldin Global Fellows who live and work in Albania, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cameroon, Ethiopia, India, Kosovo, Malawi, Mali, Nepal, Nigeria, the Philippines, Senegal, South… Continue reading Meet the 2023 Goldin Global Fellows English Language Cohort

by Lissette Mateus Roa, Co-Facilitator, Goldin Global Fellows The Goldin Institute is proud to introduce the 2023 Goldin Global Fellows (Spanish Language Edition)! We invite you to learn about each of the outstanding Goldin Global Fellows who live and work in Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Russia, the United… Continue reading Meet the 2023 Goldin Global Fellows Spanish Language Cohort

By John Kamma, Global Fellow from Liberia It is with great joy that I announce that I have won a €10,000 Euro grant from Catalyst 2030 to pilot a project focused on detainees in Liberia. I have already secured a permit from the Ministry of Justice to visit prisons and start working with detainees to… Continue reading Promoting Justice for Detainees in Liberia

By Lissette Mateus Roa, Co-Facilitator, Global Alumni Network Creating an accessible leadership program for Spanish-speaking grassroots leaders On December 10th we celebrated the graduation of the first Goldin Global Fellows program in Spanish language, where 17 Spanish-speaking grassroots leaders from eight countries in Latin America and Europe came together to create a new community of… Continue reading Celebrating the Graduation of the 2022 Goldin Global Fellows Spanish Cohort

By Yusuph Masanja, Co-Facilitator of the Global Alumni Network Since the inaugural cohort of the Goldin Global Fellows in 2018, the Goldin Institute has evolved the GATHER curriculum to remove barriers to access for grassroots leaders and to augment the pedagogy to work for the realities of our Fellows across the globe. One such development… Continue reading Our 2022 Global Fellow graduates are stronger together

by Oluchi Achi Uzodimma, 2022 Goldin Global Fellow, Nigeria Nigeria experienced its worst flooding in a decade this October, resulting in the deaths of at least 600 people. More than 2 million people and 200,000 homes have been affected by the severe floods, according to Nigeria’s humanitarian affairs ministry. Communities along the River Niger and… Continue reading Flooding in Nigeria Impacts Millions

By Lissette Mateus Roa, Co-Facilitator, Goldin Global Fellows In 1981, the United Nations declared that September 21 would be observed as the International Day of Peace, devoting the day to ‘commemorating and strengthening the ideals of peace within and among all nations and peoples’. Now, the day is observed worldwide with many grassroots leaders and… Continue reading Peace Day activities from South America

By Geoffrey Omony, 2018 Goldin Global Fellow, Uganda We are delighted to announce the launch of YOLRED’s new apprentice program for Children Born of War (CBOW). In the Northern Ugandan context, CBOW refers to children who were born during captivity to combatants under the Lord’s Resistance Army. The war ended over a decade ago, but… Continue reading YOLRED Begins Apprenticeship Program for Children Born of War

By Jamal Alkirnawi, 2018 Goldin Global Fellow, Rahat, Israel “We all feel that the violence in Israeli society is increasing and threatening to get out of control. To prevent this grim scenario, it is not enough to deploy police forces and create deterrence. We must deal with the unrestrained functioning of the social networks that… Continue reading Hands-On Peace: how youth leadership leads to peace