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Re-Imagining New Communities is an award winning, inclusive and values-driven peacebuilding organization where every story, voice and child shape a peaceful tomorrow
Why our work matters
We recognize that conflict does not start with war, it starts with silence. With lack of trust. With not being heard. We respond by equipping communities with tools for peace, creating safe spaces for healing, engaging faith institutions as partners, and empowering children and youth as agents of hope.
Every child deserves safety. Every family long for harmony. Every community seeks justice. Yet cycles of violence and inequality continue to threaten these basic human needs:
- 1.13 million children in Kenya are out of school due to poverty, insecurity, and displacement (UNICEF Kenya, 2023)
- 6 in 10 children experience violence before the age of 18 (UNICEF Kenya, 2019)
- 9 in 10 children under 10 in Sub-Saharan Africa cannot read or understand a simple story (World Bank & UNESCO, 2022)
Behind every number is a child, a family, and a community that deserves peace. That is why our work matters.
What we do
At Re-Imagining New Communities, we believe children can be peacebuilders, faith can be a bridge, and dialogue can prevent conflict before it begins.
Through peace education, interfaith engagement, participatory action research, and community dialogue, we:
- Equip children, teachers, and leaders with conflict transformation skills
- Create safe spaces for interreligious and intercultural understanding
- Empower faith leaders to guide with courage, compassion, and inclusivity
- Support communities to resolve differences through nonviolent communication
- Use participatory action research to ensure communities co-create solutions rooted in their lived realities
We are re-imagining communities where children grow in safety, faith unites rather than divides, and diversity is celebrated as strength.
Peace Education
Our Children-Led Community Peace Labs nurture safe spaces where children are empowered with compassion and emotional resilience to transform conflict into hope, becoming active agents of peace.
Interfaith Engagement
The Faith for Peace supports churches and faith communities to practice inclusive leadership, conflict transformation, and youth mediation, while fostering interfaith, intercultural, and interreligious dialogue that builds trust, unity, and resilience within congregations and beyond.
Participatory Action Research
This is a community-centered and inclusive approach that builds ownership, trust and sustainability by engaging diverse voices in co-creating peacebuilding solutions.
Kikao Chetu Dialogues
Inclusive and community-centered spaces that foster trust, ownership, and collective problem-solving, empowering diverse voices to bridge divides and co-create resilient pathways to peace.
Children: Faces of the Peacebuilders
Children: Faces of the Peacebuiders is a publication that highlights the stories of our participants in the Children-Led Community Peace Labs (CLCP-Labs).
This first edition of the publication focuses on the children peacebuilders from the urban settlements (Korogocho, Dandora, Babadogo, & Kariobangi) of Nairobi, Kenya who are participating in the CLCP-Labs as the first cohort of the program.
The children shares stories of their communities, families, ambitions and why they joined CLCP-Labs and how their lives have been transformed since joining the program.
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