KNPIF Release

KudeNumo Peace Initiative Foundation, inc (knpif)

Reevy Street, Harper City, Maryland County, R. L.

CELL: +231.886.920.151/886.666.957/886.334.387

April 23, 2015

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

As Lead Agency for Global Youth Service Day in Maryland, KNPIF will be celebrating the spirit of community and the value of our youth mobilizing over 1000 volunteers as they participate in this Year’s Annual Global Youth Service Day in Pleebo City, April 17 to 19.

Our mission is to operate volunteer programs around the county in partnership with sustainable community initiatives, bringing people together to work side-by-side while sharing perspectives and fostering cultural understanding.

KNPIF is a not-for-profit organization that has authored considerable peace within the Glebo Peninsula. Organized around the mission of strengthening individuals, family and communities, KNPIF is a dynamic multi-service organization serving a diverse population within the Peninsula spanning economic, ethnic, and cultural divisions. Our version of “Habitat for Humanity” is typical example.

We are implementing, developing and strengthening informal groups into mature community-based organizations, capable of maintaining and enhancing peace processes within their communities.

KNPIF believes in the value of home-grown solutions and that sustainable development begins with people and the ownership and realization of their ideas.  Any change and intervention must stand in organic relationship to what the people on the ground are already doing.

By encouraging them to develop their own models of community development, in conjunction with the services that KNPIF provides, these community organizations and their networks of women are able to scale up and replicate to feed, clothe and educate children. Listening and understanding, encouraging and focusing on strengths, responding and supporting appropriately have all helped KNPIF to develop, practice and refine our intervention.

We have received reports from teachers, children and community members which indicate increased participation in community development.

As we empower smaller organizations to meet the challenges of governance, accountability, and organizational development, we will see stronger and more sustainable programmes emerge.

KNPIF advocates for child rights, women’s rights, for improved health care and social services in rural areas, as well as for literacy and to provide libraries in public schools.