Messenger of Peace Hero Award
Messenger of Peace Hero Award
Messengers of Peace Heroes are young people between the ages of 11 and 26 years who are making significant contributions to local communities with their actions. These activities must include direct contributions to the achievement of one or more of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals at the local or national level in 2021 and 2022. Nominations can be for either individuals or teams, such as packs, patrols, or teams.
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Messenger of Peace Hero Award Laureates (2022)
Karnav Rastogi
Messenger of Peace Hero Award
A young champion for climate action, Karnav wrote a series of books about reducing household waste to raise awareness about ocean pollution. The books were distributed with seeds to plant into trees, and have inspired young people to change their behaviours and live more sustainability.
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Mohamad Hammoud
Messenger of Peace Hero Award
Mohamad has led multiple projects in his community including coordinating a campaign to plant trees in the Arab Region, participating in blood donation drives, raising health awareness during the COVID-19 pandemic, and supporting people displaced by conflict in the city of Derna.
Muhammad Rifai Sahida
Messenger of Peace Hero Award
As a leader in his community, Rifai initiated a project to reduce single-use plastics by mobilising 200 students to organise waste management groups in 23 local schools. He also led a social entrepreneurship project to empower female inmates and ex-inmates to make and sell products from reusable waste.
Paul Alexandru Pop
Messenger of Peace Hero Award
As a first responder at the Romanian-Ukraine border in the days after war broke out in Ukraine, Paul acted as a translator and guide to help thousands of refugees find hotels and organise transport to relocate to other communities in Romania and neighbouring countries.
Proyecto Migrantes (Migrants Project)
Messenger of Peace Hero Award
This service project, led by a refugee from Venezuela who now lives in Chile, engages young people in Scouting and promotes a culture of peace and inclusion. Through educational activities, young people learn about cultural differences and how to welcome migrants into new communities.
Un Libro, Un Sueño (A Book, A Dream)
Messenger of Peace Hero Award
Aurora and Miguel Rojo have helped more than 1,500 students in low-income households by establishing libraries in local public schools that promote education and literacy among young people. Meanwhile, a book written by the two community leaders is inspiring others to achieve their dreams.
Messenger of Peace Hero Award Laureates (2022)
Ali Muhammed
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2021
Along with his Scout group, Ali planted trees in different areas in his city and led weekly sessions to teach young people and motivate them to take community action. Ali's group also led sanitisation campaigns during COVID-19 response benefitting 1600 people.
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En-Señas Team
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2021
Since 2019, Hernedy and Ana have been working in their community to raise awareness and make the community more inclusive to people with hearing impairment. Among their activities, Scouts were teaching sign language to community members to ease communication and dialogue for everyone.
Fakhir Naufal
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2021
When Fakhir witnessed the severity of blood shortages in Indonesia amidst the pandemic, he decided to initiate the Scout Blood Donors project in 2020 that comprised of a social media campaign to both raise awareness and encourage blood donations to save lives. The team of volunteers led the campaign, reaching tens of thousands of people through their online videos and expanding the project to other provinces.
Group Grombalia El Medina
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2021
Tunisian Scout group, Grombalia El Medina has been tirelessly to ensure their community was safe during the outbreak of COVID-19 by leading efforts like distributing masks and sanitizers, carrying out handwashing campaigns, food distributions and more.
Ivy Akii Karushi
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2021
Ivy played a leading role in Gingko, a project that aims to combat teen pregnancies in Kenya. The Scout group worked on empowering girls aged 15-20 to raise their awareness about sexual and reproductive health education and giving guidance to teen mothers. The group kick-started the project in Kibera Slum and worked with 57 pregnant teens and mothers.
Joana Bacelar
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2021
Joana leads a team of young people with a goal to ensure that all Scouts in Portugal are familiar about the Sustainable Development Goals and engaging in actions to achieve Agenda 2030. The team facilitated 100 sessions and reached 20,000 young people across the country.
Jubille Marlourd Lucena
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2021
Due to COVID-19 related school closures in the last two years, Jubille and his Scout group decided to bring education closer to underprivileged children and youth and to do this through Scouting. With support from the government, the Barangay Scouting Project has been bridging the education gap in the village of Barangay Coro-Coro in the Philippines. Through this project the Scout group was able to help out-of-school children and youth to get back to school.
Kayla Bernard
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2021
During pandemic restrictions in Canada, Kayla decided to support the mental health and wellbeing of children and youth through art and play as many did not have access to this anymore. She created and shipped over 800 at-home art and mindfulness kits to different homes across her province as well as receiving financial support from her local government to continue her project.
Krisly Nazareth Rodriguez Barrantes
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2021
Krisly and her group have been providing support to people diagnosed with cancer as well as offer support to their loved ones. The group has reached 2500 people through their online blog, hair donation campaigns and more activities.
Mafeking Scout Group
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2021
The Mafeking Scout Group in India has been focusing on offering food security to families whose livelihoods have been impacted by the pandemic. The group organized food drives to people including migrant workers and ambulance drivers. To expand their pandemic response, they also established a Scout Oxygen Bank for clinics with oxygen shortages and worked at hospitals during vaccine drives.
Mariana Elizalde Cano
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2021
Mariana started her project,"Hand by Hands" that has been using 3D printing to create prosthetic limbs for people who need it across her country as not many people are able to afford prosthetics. By testing various prototypes, Mariana now designs and distributes prosthetic arms and has helped over 160 people across Mexico.
Nour Elhouda Mahmoudi
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2021
Nour has been leading the Project Youth Challenge, that aims at supporting young adults into adulthood by providing support to them on education, employment, and guiding them with civic engagement for Scouts and non-Scouts from various regions in Algeria.
Pacôme Hermann Koffi
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2021
Pacôme has led a project that aimed to prevent conflict and political tension during elections in his country, by working closely with government officers on developing dialogue skills to create a more peaceful dialogue. They worked with young people to train them on how to become peace mediators and raise awareness in their districts of peaceful dialogue to prevent conflict among the community.
Raymund Romeo Guzman
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2021
Raymund and his group partnered with Waves for Water to provide access to clean and safe water to marginalized indigenous communities to reduce water-borne diseases. They have succeeded in providing over 50 families with clean drinkable in three municipalities.
Sabin Krishna Karmacharya
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2021
With economic activity slowing down during the pandemic, Sabin and his Scout group realized the devastating impact this has on people who depend on a daily wage to live. Together they created a project to provide basic needs and hot meals to thousands of people across seven states in Nepal. They reached over 600,000 people with food and necessities in one year.
UK Community Impact Group
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2021
Sam and Charli were part of a group of young people who worked on actions around mental health in communities in the UK during COVID-19. They partnered with charities to focus their actions on mental health, disability, environmental action and more, reaching millions online through their campaigns and building the capacity of young people to support their community.
Viajeros entre Letras
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2021
Ana Maria and Santiago have focused their project on empowering children with knowledge about children rights to foster resilient communities. Their Scout group did this by establishing multiple education spaces for underprivileged children to have access to education and a place to learn.
Messenger of Peace Hero Award Laureates (2019)
Alice Chatelain
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2019
Alice has taken the lead on being an advocate for climate action among young people in her community. She is known for organising awareness campaigns in her city. After starting with a small group of Scout friends, Alice began collaborating with local organizations and community leaders to involve them in her events towards climate action. Her events aim to encourage people and educate them on the effects of daily practices for climate action, where thousands are attending.
Aliff Ajwad
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2019
Aliff has always been passionate and strongly active when it comes to promoting environmental protection in his country. He initiated several conservation projects that include working with Rover Scouts in mangrove areas to protect natural habitats. Aliff’s proudest project is the one he started by collecting plastic bottle caps around the country to build a pedestrian walk for a local community to support children and students in reaching the public transport using this route. Aliff also raises awareness about plastic pollution, and mobilised his network of friends to collect bottle caps around the world.
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Eric Mwakaramba
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2019
Eric works with marginalised children in DR Congo who have been outcasts in their society due to discrimination. The children end up on the streets as their community excludes them due to local traditional beliefs. Eric has been advocating and supporting these children despite being looked down upon by the community. He involved the children in Scouting programmes and teaches them useful skills.
Fatima Aliyeva
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2019
One of the most active young members in her National Scout Organization, Fatima has been involved in several projects that work towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Her latest project is focused on working with orphaned children living in orphanages around the country. The project enabled the children to learn about Scouting and also gave them an opportunity to play and feel supported by the young Scouts like Fatima.
Gustavo Adolfo
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2019
In 2018, Gustavo started a project to preserve and protect water in Colombia. Naming his project “Hands to the Water”, Gustavo collaborated with the local government and Scout groups to remove 3.4 tons of solid waste from water sources, by directly engaging 300 people and over 1,500 community members
Mariana Monroy
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2019
At only 10 years old as a Cub Scout, Mariana started wanted to help children battling cancer. She started collecting hair braids to donate to children who have lost their hair after treatment. Just one year later, she managed to give 300 braids to a local hospital and has continued her project since. With the support of the Scouts Global Network, Mariana’s campaign is now known across some countries in the region.
Mary Wanjiku
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2019
For Mary, she wanted to help people in her community generate an income and benefit the environment at the same time. This is when she started her olive tree planting project. Mary receives seed donations, prepares the seedlings and distributes them to local women, farmers and schools. The brown olive trees improves the land conditions for farmers and this encourages them to plant more olive seedlings. Students and women are planting more trees, and making an income for their families by selling the olives and making other by-products.
Miss Svitta
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2019
As a Rover Scout, Svitta is leading a series of projects to address issues faced in underprivileged communities in her city. She has been working to provide clean water and sanitation, instil environmentally friendly practices with support from her local community.
Mourad Barsoum
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2019
For several years Mourad has been volunteering with different organizations around the world. From rehabilitating young offenders and child refugees in the Philippines and South Sudan, to working with child victims of abuse in Kenya, Mourad involved his Scouting skills to deal with vulnerable children and support them. Mourad plans to continue volunteering and expand his knowledge in dealing with children affected by armed conflict.
Muath Nujayfan
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2019
Muath has been a strong advocate for anti-bullying among young people, seeing that bullying is a serious global issue affecting young people in all cultures. By using the Scouting programme and raising awareness in schools, Muath has been helping young people develop their confidence and prevent more abuse among young people in schools and outside of school.
Nadine Shilli
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2019
Nadine was 12 years old when her country underwent major political transformation, and that’s when her passion to stand for human rights started. Through Scouting, Nadine became involved in different programmes like Youth Voices for Democracy where she now supports young people to develop skills for civil activism through workshops and debates. Nadine wants to continue providing a space for young people to be informed and learn to influence positive change in their local community.
Njood Mansour
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2019
As a student of social work, Njood has witnessed the negative effects of neglect in underprivileged children. This motivated her to provide vulnerable children with life skills and develop programs for them with the help of other women in Saudi Arabia. For her, it is essential to encourage other woman involved in Scouting to put their ideas to action and take the lead to develop their local community.
Veronika Gorovska
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2019
Veronika was one of the strong young advocates for dialogue and spreading a culture of peace and understanding in her region. She first became involved in this through World Scouting’s partnership between KAICIID and familiarising herself with the 10 Principles of Dialogue. Veronika was among the contributors to bring dialogue into the Eurasian countries through Scouting by organising a Jamboree dedicated to it, which brought dialogue as a topic for decision-makers in all National Scout Organisations.
Messenger of Peace Hero Award Laureates (2018)
Adriana Gamboa
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2018
From clean water to dialogue and staying safe online, everything Adriana does is about putting young people at the head of social change and responsible living. In her community in Mexico, young people are especially vulnerable to cyberbullying and online violence, so she made it her mission to raise awareness about cybercrimes and informing over 1000 young people about their rights and protections online. When she’s not leading the “Don’t Get Involved with the Networks” initiative, she’s spearheading youth-led initiatives supporting children in low-income families, building more tolerant societies and a culture of peace, and keeping toxins out of drinking water.
Camilo Pitu Ayala Herrera
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2018
After experiencing the conflict in Colombia directly affecting his childhood, Camilo turned to Scouting to find a supportive community and was able to become an ambassador for using dialogue for sewing peace and forgiveness during the reconstruction process in Colombia. He’s now using film and other creative storytelling methods for young people in his community to find their voices in talking about the conflict and promoting dialogue.
Carl Oehlenschläger
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2018
Carl is a main driver of the Future Leaders Project, which crosses borders and connects young people in Tunisia and Denmark to participate in democratic processes and encourage them to be active members of their communities. From developing the skills of young people to advocating for freedom of speech and encouraging Scouts to take up their own community development projects, the project aims to use the Scout method to keep young people away from radicalisation.
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Doline Chokogoue Noukachessie
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2018
People suffering from leprosy in Doline’s community face stigmatization, causing many of them to become distanced from society and even be forced into seclusion and retirement. It’s Doline’s mission to make sure of group of seniors with leprosy living at the Baleng Leprosy Center are able to live fulfilled lives, so she and her Scout group are raising awareness about their condition and rights and volunteering to renovate the Centre.
Hiu Lam Fung (Helen)
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2018
As the former Chairlady of the National Rover Council in Hong Kong, Helen was discouraged by the amount of prejudice immigrant communities experience, so she led a group of Scouts in implementing a project to break down barriers and dispel stereotypes. Helen’s vision is live in a society where everyone can live peacefully and with dignity.
Humayra Ibnat Badhon
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2018
Badhon always wanted to be a Scout but scouting in her school was only open to boys. When her school principle became a commissioner for “Scout Metro”, he encouraged her to start Scouting for girls, so she did! She was able to set up the programme with his support and hold meetings with groups of parents to convince them to allow their girls to join her group. She eventually grew the group to 200 girl Scouts and is now an “elder sister” to all of the girls, who are excited to get new opportunities outside of school through Scouting.
Junbert Pabon
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2018
Junbert is on a mission to give young offenders in the Philippines a new chance at life by bringing Scouting to children in conflict with the law. By turning troublemakers into peacebuilders, Junbert is hoping to make sure these young people have the opportunity to thrive once they’re released. So far, his programme with the Boy Scouts of Philippines has impacted the lives of tens of young people and has even helped some prove in court that they’re fit to be released.
Marwan Awny
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2018
Inspired by the opportunity of helping the children of feuding families break the cycle of violence and revenge, Marwan became one of the leaders of a project working directly with these children in Southern Egypt. According to Marwan, the real impact of his work will come 30 years down the road when their generation of the feuding families is able to successfully put the history of feuding behind them and prevent future generations from engaging in acts of revenge.
Mikaeel Martinez Jaka
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2018
After a historic African-American school was vandalized in Mikaeel’s community, he and a group of community members from different faiths worked to repair the school and Mikaeel was inspired to do even more to honour African American heritage. He brought together over 100 volunteers to build a protected gravel trail to a historic African burial ground near his community to pay respect and protect local heritage.
Patrick Evans
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2018
Growing up in South Sudan, Patrick was discouraged by the number of children who die every year due to preventable water-borne diseases, but he knew he could make a difference. He’s now spearheading Sustainable Development Goal 9: Clean Water and Sanitation through his project Water for Child, which gives students access to proper sanitation services at their school, and trains “Hygiene Promoters” to be ambassadors for good hygiene habits.
Violetta Pugachova
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2018
Since 2016, Violetta has been working with Scouts of Ukraine to help internally-displaced children in Kiev find a sense a belonging in their new communities through playing games, gaining new friends, and teaching them Scout activities. She hopes these young people will feel welcome in their new home and be able to live fulfilled lives through Scouting.
Messenger of Peace Hero Award Laureates (2017)
Baskouda Shelley
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2017
Baskouda has contributed to supporting the SWA expansion in the Region. He has consistently contributed to promoting Youth engagement globally representing and championed to nurture their leadership skills. He launched an initiative of “I Rover, 100 service hours, 1 project” with a view of attaining 36000 service hours by September 2018 with 36 rover Scouts with a view of expanding the project to 3 additional groups. He is leading MOP network expansion in Cameroon and conducts many MOP network promotion activities. He has served the Region as a Better World Framework (BWF) facilitator greatly contributing to sensitization of BWF in the Region.
Pauline Kigari
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2017
Pauline has really championed the growth and expansion of MOP in Kenya with a keen focus on the empowerment of young girls through life skills training and advocating against gender-based violence. She has equally championed community outreach programmes targeting the less fortunate notably the distribution of sanitary towels and promoting hygiene of girls during menstruation. Has worked as a volunteer at Daadab Refugee camp with UNHCR at the AVSI foundation introducing Scouting and promoting Peace programmes under MOP, also focussing on environment conservation and effective utilisation of available resources. This particular project has attracted more partners and Pauline seeks to expand the scope to focus on other areas like Health and Countering Violent Extremism. Besides Pauline’s profile already shared, see this video of her projects with Girl Scouts Kenya
Venny Indri Christyanti
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2017
Venny has been one of the main faces for the expansion of Messengers of Peace Indonesia and the Asia Pacific Region. She supported the development of the MoP team and is actively supporting the engagement of more Scouts in the various initiatives like Peace train and cultural heritage in Indonesia.
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Leonid Sokolov
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2017
Leonid is one of our youngest leaders to receive the award. He is promoting leadership and teamwork in his community, and he also participated in several community development initiatives at his young age. An inspiration for all of us to reach out for community partners to amplify the impact of scouting from a young age.
Daria Chekurova
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2017
One of our most active ambassadors in the Eurasia region and in the world, Daria joined the messengers of Peace team around 2013. During the regional MoP training, she already stood out from the group with her ideas and great spirit. Since then, her commitment and enthusiasm became the fuel of Ukrainian Messengers of Peace Network with the support of her team. Still, her influence reached beyond her country and she has inspired people and projects around the world, keeping people motivated and the network growing in actions and influence.
Oana Mitrut
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2017
She coordinated the development of peace activities and workshops during the 6th National Jamboree. She is working to promote diversity and inclusion not only in Rumania but in Europe. She is in the process to become a dialogue ambassador to continue her work in supporting Scouts to raise awareness towards inclusion and more inclusive communities.
Josue Rivera Linares
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2017
In recent years, Peru has been heavily affected by the natural phenomenon called "El Nino". More than 141,000 people were affected during the 2017 rainy season due to flooding and landslides. Scouts organised the "Be prepared operation" in different parts of the country where people were affected by the rainy season. Together, Scouts mobilised more than 15 tons of donations and relief supplies.
Jessica Rodriguez
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2017
In 2017 Mexico was hit by a very destructive earthquake with severe impact in many cities across the country. Jessica's city and neighbourhood was one of the most affected. The damages on highways blocked the relief support to reach their city. Despite the limited resources, she and her Rover crew organised the community members to start rescue actions in flattened buildings. Together they saved the life of seven people trapped in the rubble. They also coordinated the distribution of medical resources and shelter for the most affected until the relief reached the area.
Safidy Randriamitantsoa
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2017
Safidy is a young man tackling one of Madagascar’s biggest taboos – menstrual hygiene. It hasn’t been easy for him to talk about the subject openly, especially as the young Scout is breaking a taboo by providing menstrual hygiene kits and training to the young girls and women of the island off the coast of eastern Africa.
Messenger of Peace Hero Award Laureates (2016)
Katie Hancock
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2016
As a young leader, after the floods in Lubbock, Texas, communities were stranded without access to clean water, food and shelter. Messengers of Peace and Scout Katie Hancock jumped into action, raising funds locally and delivering goods to families in need.
Pia Mortensen
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2016
Knowing that Scouts in Europe needed to collaborate to provide the most suitable support for refugees coming into Europe in 2015, Pia Mortensen from Denmark organized a Refugee Response Seminar, which acted as a seed corn effect and thousands of Messengers of Peace service hours helping Syrian, Iraqi and Afghani refugees.
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Michal Medek
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2016
If you would like to meet a nature lover, you should meet Michal Medek. He dedicated himself to the Environmental education and community projects. His dream to have an environmental centre in Czech Republic by building with his team Kaprálův mlýn Scout Centre which become one of SCENES and hosted the latest World Scout Seminar on Environment Education (May 2016).
Scouts of the World Team
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2016
Scout leader and local Volunteers engaged in mentoring more than five hundred young rovers to develop community service projects inspired by Peace, Sustainable development and Environmental causes. Among their various projects Rovers in Thailand have advocated against drugs, bullying, historical heritage, youth empowerment and the development of leadership skills in young people.
Edgardo Fuertes Esquivel
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2016
For more than three years, his enthusiasm and personal story with bullying inspired Edgardo to take have a stronger voice against bullying. Is transforming the attitude of Scouts around the world to the subject of bullying. Using Social media network of Scouts, he has connected with more than 2,000 young people around the world to understand, recognise and prevent bullying in their schools and youth clubs.
May Abdelhadi
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2016
One of our earliest Messengers of Peace from the Arab world since the start of MoP, she is an enthusiastic advocate for young women empowerment. May has inspired young girls to engage in emergency relief actions and refugee support in conflict areas with mental health activities in refugee shelters. She also is a strong partner to promote collaboration between guides and scouts for community development initiatives.
Monica Figueroa
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2016
The Messengers of Peace project “books for All” developed by Monica Figueroa, initially started in Colombia, inspires Scouts to collect books and redistribute them to areas of need in their local community. So far the project has provided over 20,000 books and more than 200 hundred local libraries. Monica is also founder of a local foundation advocating for literacy and opportunities for underprivileged children at risk.
Scouts of Greece
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2016
The Scouts of Lesbos, Greece have been welcoming and sometimes rescuing refugees making the hazardous journey westwards to Europe from the Middle East. These Messengers of Peace have been recognised by UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon. The Scouts of Lesbos are all heroes!
Mutakin Jaenal
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2016
Member of the World Scout committee as liaison person for Messengers of Peace Initiative, she has contributed with her experience and perspective to enrich the development of strategies and programme content. She has been an active Ambassador of Messengers of Peace in each of her engagements as a Vice-chair of WSC, always dedicating time to support NSOs and regions in the development of training experiences regarding MoP. In her personal time, she advocates for young women empowerment becoming a mentor for the arising leadership of woman scout leaders in Africa Region.
Bernardo de Leon
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2016
Leader of a large number of volunteers and initiators of the Train for Peace project. Muktain a several hundred Scouts have been attending passengers using the railroad system of Indonesia. Muktain and volunteers target mainly women and children providing them with water and small snacks during the long commuting journey. As they share time with passengers they also talk with them about tolerance and peace culture in an attempt to raise awareness of kindness as a way of living. The project is in its third year of activation.
Ahmed Elhalfawy
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2016
Along with a group of enthusiastic group of young Scouts, ‘Berns’ and Brighton Venture Scouts created the Messengers of Peace Road Show. The aim of this projects, funded mainly with his own resources, they want to reach out to students all across Philippines sharing with them the idea of Peace Culture, Community service and Environmental awareness. Up to date, MoP Roadshow has reach out to more than 40,000 young scouts and non-scouts in Philippines and has extended its reach to all Asia-Pacific countries.
Peter Blatch
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2016
Member of the World Scout committee and the MoP Regional decision committee for five years, he has been instrumental to ensure the development and evolution of evaluation systems and criteria for funded projects and current guidelines for NSOs in the use of the fund. Peter Blatch has also contributed to several MoP Training experiences to support NSOs in Asia Pacific Region and around the world, to promote MoP aims and goals. In his personal time, he volunteers to support children with special needs.
Messengers of Peace Social Media Team
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2016
Under the leadership of Jose Ramon Diaz, Messengers of Peace has promoted extensively its aims and objectives in cities across Mexico, triggering the creation of several local initiatives and global campaigns among Cubs, Scouts and Rovers. Cubs supporting people with cancer, young scouts advocating against bullying, Ventures and Rovers working hard for environment are result of extensive social media work in the country. In addition to their local actions, Mexico team has supported all MoP teams in Interamerica Region to boost their communication messages and campaigns, keeping them inspired and prompting growth of young people in action at local level.
Tan Sijie
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2016
Developer of the first Messengers of Peace Programme Guidelines for Singapore, he is a champion activist for Messengers of Peace in the region, along with Environment Programme, Better World Framework and World Scout Programmes, especially Scouts of the World Award and Messengers of Peace. His contribution to many projects in Singapore and Malaysia is been outstanding in areas of environment, community awareness and dialogue. He has run Project Orion (SWA Voluntary Service) for the past seven year to save marine turtles. He is also a dialogue for peace trainers.
Bharat Scouts and Guides
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2016
From the very adoption of Messengers of Peace in India, Scouts and Scouts leaders have not ceased in their commitment to spread the message of Peace Culture, Scouting and community service across the country, including the farthest cities and provinces. Bharath Scotus and Guides have also supported extensively various Asia-Pacific initiatives to reach out more young people trough Messengers of Peace, becoming trend setters in the region.
Mohamed Nidal Arfaoui
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2016
Coordinator of the initiative Ambassadors of Youth. Tunisian scouts have through Ambassadors of youth are advocating and developing community projects to raise awareness against the use of drugs reaching out to thousands of young people with innovating approaches. They also organized medical campaigns to attend with Diabetes condition in local communities. Youth Ambassadors is now entering its second year of initiatives and capacity building inspired by Messengers of Peace goals.
Bako Almoktar
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2016
He has been very instrumental in spearheading numerous local initiatives that are geared at changing his community and implemented by the Scouts under the Messenger of Peace umbrella. To me, he stands out above the rest of the team in the recent past. As a doctor, he commits his time to support local communities in need spreading the message of Peace as one of his drivers.
Messenger of Peace Hero Award Laureates (2014)
Ali Ali Algarmouzy
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2014
Ali - Ali has been leading an MOP project in extreme risk conditions, supporting refugee families in the border of Yemen. Affected by severe war conflict, populations in several villages in the border of Yemen have been targeted with bomb assaults in schools and city buildings. Through MoP projects, scouts and youth have received training to detect bombs in civil buildings, especially schools. With the support of local experts and combined with scout and leadership activities, scouts are also supporting affected families with stress management.
Nare Khlghatyan
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2014
Messengers of Peace National Coordinator in Armenia. Since 2013 has been promoting MOP aim in the field and within the country. With the maximum number of projects from all the NSO’s in Eurasia Region. She is now preparing a new effort to build a wider team to expand the network.
Scout Association Serbia
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2014
(WOSM Europe/Belgrade/Sarajevo and Zagreb) – High floods in late spring seem to strike parts of Europe with a frightening regularity these days. While many regions along the Danube, Elbe and Vltava rivers suffered most last year, the last day’s cities in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia saw large parts of its near villages affected by torrential rains and subsequent high waters, in many places beating the record heights measured for more than 100 years! Volunteers from the National Scout Organizations (NSO) in the three countries affected, engaged in relief efforts individually in several cities and villages. Scouts contributed to help people out of flooded houses, joined Red Cross in the effort of bringing supplies to people affected and later, scouts in different areas organized recovery actions to allow people to reach back to their homes. Djordje Krstic, In representation of Scouts of Serbia Josip Kos, In representation of Scouts of Croatia Sanda Putica, In representation of Scouts of Bosnia-Herzegovina
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Madhu Sudan Avala
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2014
Messengers of Peace National team member, he has been a key element to promote and support the growing local network in India, allowing Scouts and leaders to receive direct support through online resource for their local promotion. Currently he is leading the efforts to organize MOP trainings in each province to reach scouts and youth in pubic system with the motivation towards Scouts and Messengers of Peace.
Marie Louise Ycossie
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2014
Appointed as MOP Coordinator in 2012, she contributed to her NSO mainly through training and mentoring more Youth that has enhanced to the high visibility in the media and social impact of Scouting in Cote d’Ivoire. She positioned her NSO as one of the most active in the MoP Network in West Africa. She regularly shared stories on MoP actions through Kudu mail to motivate and inspire other youth the Region. First resource person MoP Ambassador who went outside her NSO to support (training) Central Africa as well as her West Africa zonal youth Forum. She shared her experience and supports them in the establishment of MOP in theirs OSN Also; she represented the Africa Scout Region during the International. Conference on “Youth Volunteering and Dialogue”, held in Jeddah in 2013.
Trees for the World Project
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2014
A worldwide project started by a group of scout friends from 11 countries, in their effort to develop community service initiatives. Inspired by the ILT MoP training, these young leaders shared their initiative in social media and direct invitation from scout-to-scout to join the effort. After a couple of months more than 33 countries in 6 regions were engaged, developing their own local campaigns. Between April 26th and September 27th – 2014, more than 66,000 trees were planted by Cubs, scouts, Venturers, Rovers and Scout Leaders; united with a common goal to create peace through environmental action. https://www.facebook.com/TreesForTheWorld?fref=ts
Nabeel Baydoun
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2014
Chairman of Lebanese Scout Federation and coordinator of the project "My Tent is your Tent". Since 2013, Scouts from Lebanon have been working to support the integration of thousands of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, as well as helping towards improving their well-being and living conditions within the country. Working closely with the national authorities and local communities, Lebanese Scouts have focused on the basic needs of families fleeing the war in neighboring Syria; providing winter supplies, warm clothing and helping the children in particular to feel at home in their new communities. With more than 2 million refugees fleeing Syria, and some 840,000 in Lebanon, local Scouts have been extremely dedicated volunteers doing vital and outstanding work throughout the country. And in order to support their operational actions and young leaders training, Messengers of Peace Support Fund handed over extra resources that will enable Scouts and local communities to help create a better world for all Syrian refugees. http://scout.org/node/33898 http://scout.org/node/31456#overlay-context=node/30322
Bray Barnes
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2014
10,000 Scouts from across the US State of New Jersey became Messengers of Peace during the Camporee held in Sea Girt, NJ over the weekend of May 16-18, 2014. Hosted by the New Jersey State Police and National Guard, Scouts were able to earn their Messengers of Peace Ring badge by conducting local service projects in advance of the Camporee, and by participating in a variety of local and onsite activities related to peace and service. Special thanks to BSA Volunteers Bray Barnes and Peter Hyman key actors in the organization to promote community service, and the New Jersey State Police Eagle Scout Association, for an outstanding and inspirational event! http://scout.org/node/30925
Joseph Vitale
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2014
Eagle Scout. He raised fund to build a three-classroom facility, with a small library within each classroom, which serves over 100 kids in Guatemala. Each year students have the opportunity to improve their education through the 6th grade. This provides the children with a new opportunity to learn in a safe and clean environment as opposed to a one room wooden shack they previously had.
S. Prassana
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2014
Messengers of Peace Regional coordinator in Asia Pacific region, advancing the network in more than 25 countries accumulating more than 1000 service projects and more than 500 million service hours. He is inspiring with his energy and result oriented style all our Messengers of Peace coordinators in Asia-Pacific Region, he also has contributed to set various network standards and good practices in the management of MOP fund and network for Asia Pacific region and for the global approach of MoP.
Paul Browne and Mike Loder
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2014
Scout Leaders for more than 40 years, Paul Browne and Mike Loder took part in one of the several efforts of scouting to build peace in a divided country. Belfast in the early 1970’s was a difficult place to live – minority families in mixed communities were burned and bullied out of their homes, barricades were built preventing one community from encroaching on the other. Murders, bombings and intimidation were commonplace. Mike Loder and Paul Browne were Scout Leaders from groups on each side of the sectarian divide in a tense Belfast. They strongly believed that their responsibility to their Scouts included helping to develop tolerance and understanding. They knew that if progress was to be made, people had to meet, prejudices had to be challenged, and friendships had to be forged. They knew this could put their own lives at risk, but they knew it was worth it. Mike and Paul continue their pioneering work today and represent the many people around the world who ‘take the first step’ and offer the hand of friendship to others, it is always the beginning of the Peace journey.
Messenger of Peace Hero Award Laureates (2013)
Felipe Garavito
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2013
Joined the Messengers of Peace Network as a volunteer, after the Regional Jamboree held in Colombia in January, at that time he was the leader of the service project module of the event, which provided 3 families with new houses builder by scouts. The constructive system and know how support came from the Catalina Munoz Foundation and the Colombia Scouts Association raised the funds. Inspired by the Messengers of Peace aim, during 2013 Felipe Garavito is also leading the project “100 years, 100 dreams, 100 homes” engaging Scouts and national contributors to raise funds in order to provide with houses to 100 families. To build the house, the family contributes with the building of the constructive basis, Catalina Munoz provides the technical support, local contributors sponsor the house materials and Scouts build the house for the family. This project also commemorates the centenary of the Scouts of Colombia.
Nelson Ochieng Opany
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2013
Scouting for Peaceful Elections in Kenya (SPEK) is a project of Messengers of Peace (MoP) Kenya Network. It aims to engage young people in Scouting in actions that fight tribalism, promote peace and alleviate human suffering before, during and after the general elections. The project shall make young people the center of focus in spreading the message of peace alongside addressing other social, economic and humanitarian concerns that have a direct effect on peace and stability. http://scoutmessengers.org/en/project/view/828#.Uf75SxmWk5s Nelson also has promoted the MOP network in Kenya, organizing national trainings and workshops, leading and supporting scout projects and talking about MOP in with other institutions.
Atta Verin
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2013
Prabuhi is a literary project involving young scouts as volunteers spending their time to support illiterate and blind people with reading. Scouts engage with Prabuhi project to spend at least one hour a week to read in elderly homes, at particular houses or to people in the streets. The purpose is to allow people to have access to literature world for their own personal development or enjoyment. “This is considered as an important task, because we believe that lack of information leads to so many difficulties and obstacles in life. To make our community well informed as much as we can be our goal.” The project started as an individual service action, gathering now more than 3,000 volunteers across the country. http://scoutmessengers.org/en/project/view/742#.Uf8K6BmWk5s
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Sophie Castillo
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2013
In 2005 Ticket to Life program started as an opportunity to provide street kids with a new opportunity to get an education and to participate as members of the Scouts program. Sophie Castillo a professional scout and Scout Leader has been the driver of life changing stories with street kids involved in Scouts program. Since 2005 and until the present several groups in the Philippines have been created under Ticket to life concept and other countries in the Philippines and Africa are replicating the same model to support street kids in their local communities.
Umit Savas Baran
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2013
One of the most active Messengers of Peace reporters from Europe Network, he’s been sharing past and present experiences of scouts in Turkey, allowing the global community to learn and exchange knowledge and ideas. He’s been in scouting for several years already and still active. With more than 111 projects uploaded into scout.org (previously scoutmessengers.org) he is inspiring the global community youth and adult leaders to increase the use of social media to promote scouting around the world.
Irina Pruidze
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2013
Born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1976. With studies in Medicine at Tbilisi State Medical University and Psychology at Tbilisi Institute of Anthropology and Political Science and a vast experience in project management. She is a Secretary General of Georgian Organization of the Scout Movement, transferring all her knowledge and experience to develop capacity in National Scout Organization as well as to volunteers to develop various service projects after the war conflict in Georgia. National Scout organization is one of few addressing dialogue and skills development issues within underprivileged youth. They are a regional leader and example in organizational and management capacity.
Guadalupe Sanmateu
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2013
Members of WAGGS since young age, she’s been one of the drivers of Messengers of Peace Network in social media, supporting with her expertise and knowledge to boost Scouts call of action to integrate service efforts at local level with the help of social media. Communicator by profession she trained and coached several national
Jameel Fallatah
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2013
Key supporter from Saudi Arabian Scout to develop the Messengers of Peace Network within the Arab Region, he’s been driving the Messengers of Peace Network development hand in hand with Prince Faisal from Saudi Arabia. He supports world events and workshops in all the regions to share the message of Peace and call of action.
Messenger of Peace Hero Award Laureates (2011)
Rabbi Peter Hyman
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2011
Rabbi Peter Hyman Messengers of Peace National Coordinator to spread the Peace message across the country with the Boy Scouts of America. Rabbi Peter E. Hyman, MAHL, DD, is the spiritual leader of Temple B'nai Israel. A native of Connecticut, Rabbi Hyman has a passion for teaching, a deep love of Torah and a commitment to share the wisdom and beauty of Judaism with all those he encounters. About MOP he said “…even though Scouts have been doing service projects for more than 100 years, the good part about the Messengers of Peace Program is it gives Scouts an opportunity to see what other Scouts from around the world are doing as service projects, and the social media part of it gets people involved to where they can see they’re not the only ones working toward a goal of making the world a better place"
Collie Kavanagh
Messenger of Peace Hero Award 2011
Scout since his childhood, he is one of the contributors and creators of the very first concept of Messengers of Peace as a second phase to boost the impact of Gifts for Peace Initiative. Program Director in Scouting Ireland, his vast experience in designing educative resources and content for youth is now a key resource in the development of Messengers of Peace program and network around the world. He leads the creation of scoutmessengers.org later merged with scout.org He is still supporting the definition of MOP global strategy and the advancement of Network across countries.