Category: Announcements

Sometimes I get blue in face of humanity’s disregard for life and by the way we tend to cannibalize our own species. Other times, I remember that many people work endless hours towards making a difference and stopping the worse of the human traits from showing their face. People like, Michael Fryer who has worked in peace and conflict resolution from Northern Ireland to Sri-Lanka and Irene Santiago who is the founder of Mindanao Commission of Women and has also been a vice presidential candidate in the Philippines. What an incredible duo these two are! At times as the class, in my first full week as a Peace Fellow at Chulalongkorn’s Peace and Conflict Resolution Program, was working at conflict resolution problems you could get a glimpse at the collective working of our brains, you could actually hear the metaphorical wheels turning.

The Columbia School District provided a lot of recognition for local Rotary clubs and the good work they are doing in conjunction with the school system. The Columbia clubs – Downtown, Metro, Northwest, Rotaract, South, and Sunrise Southwest – combined efforts on a number of projects which led to the lead story in the School District Quarterly Newsletter which goes out to 62,000 area homes.