In the Jordan episode of SIYB, I sat down with Samantha Fick who is the founder of the NGO- Speak Peace. Speak peace is a peace-building initiative that focuses on alleviating violence and helping people maintain peace in all aspects of their lives. They work around Cape Town and mostly in gang-ridden communities to try and save children from partaking in gang activity, prevent domestic violence, try assist people with substance abuse issues and also host workshops and programmes to teach peace. 

 

Speak Peace got its name from the philosophy of speaking one's reality into existence. They teach communities and specially primary school children how to speak with peace and how to interact with one another. They believe that peace is not just the absence of violence but the presence of health, happiness and a stable balance in a person's social, mental, emotional, physical & spiritual well-being. They also teach gardening, yoga and physical fitness to ensure that people in these communities are healthy in all aspects of life and can practice peace. 

 

I enjoyed this episode because I learnt SOooOOo much. You miss a lot of details when listening to the news or talking to your peers but Samantha brought in statistics and first hand experience that helped me understand violence in my city in a better way. I believe in her and Speak Peace and think that their initiative is powerful enough to make a generational change in South Africa :) 

 

Thanks for listening!

 

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Speak Peace: 

www.speakpeace.org

IG: @speakpeaceorg

 

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Hussam: 

IG: @shamsiinyourbrain

Twitter: @hussam_shamsi

 

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Hope you enjoyed the episode! ⚡️⚡️⚡️