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Limited access to education  disproportionately affects minorities and indigenous people in remote  areas.

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“For ages, people in this community have been waiting for the chance to learn how to read and how to write,” tribal leader Intot Juan told community members at a gathering in the remote village of Talaingod, Davao del Norte in Mindanao, the Philippines. “I am indeed very grateful to the organization for answering our cries and desire to be educated and to be equally treated in the society.”

Recognizing the need to provide special assistance to distant communities in the island archipelago nation of 94 million, GPFF Philippines has expanded its service as a state-approved provider of the Department of Education’s Alternative Learning System by launching four additional Community Learning Sites in remote areas of Mindanao. 

0	Free screenings at the health fair hosted by the Chivers-Grant Institute of Morehouse College.

More than 1,000 Volunteers in Four States Take 'A Day On, Not a Day Off' in Remembrance of Civil Rights Leader

The Global Peace Festival Foundation USA (GPFUSA) with partners from local governments, schools, businesses and nonprofit organizations, sponsored some 1,000 volunteers at 25 project sites in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and  Mississippi in observation of Martin Luther King Day of Service on Jan 16, 2012.

Former Philippine Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr., issued a ringing call for a comprehensive initiative to resolve the division of the Korean peninsula and provide for the humanitarian needs of the Korean people in a speech at Global Peace Convention in Seoul, South Korea on November 29, 2011.

De Venecia, the Founding Chairman of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), Founding President of the Centrist Asia Pacific Democrats International (CAPDI), and member of GPFF’s Global Leadership Council, said that “the distribution of power in the world is fast-changing—particularly in East Asia—and the Korean Peninsula must adapt to these epochal transformations.”  The text of the speech was reprinted in BizNews Asia magazine (January 2-9, 2012)

Two hundred young leaders, including high school and university students, entrepreneurs, community organizers and NGO representatives, attended the 2011 Young Leaders Summit in Jakarta on December 2–4, 2011.  The Summit was an opportunity to create initiatives for positive change in Indonesia in areas such as poverty reduction, educational reform and development, and social inclusion through fostering greater tolerance and appreciation of diversity.

Participants came from throughout Indonesia, from major cities such as Jakarta, Surabaya, and Bandung to small and distant cities such as Aceh and Nusa Tenggara Barat. The Summit combined lectures, group activities and service work, and is a project of Global Peace Festival Indonesia Foundation (GPFIF).