Teachers from Wales, Nepal and Nigeria came together on 18 November 2021 to develop and deepen their school partnerships. Participants shared the strengths they bring to partnerships and worked together on tackling challenges. WCIA Chief Executive and course trainer, Susie Ventris-field, said: “Despite the challenges of COVID, the teachers in […]
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Temple83: Launch of ‘Temple Tours’ and ‘Friends’ group – as Anniversary looks to the Future
23rd November marks the anniversary of the opening of Wales’ Temple of Peace & Health, on 23rd November 1938 – with this year being a grand old 83rd birthday. WCIA are celebrating the day with the launch of recently-developed online Temple Tours, as well as a programme of monthly guided […]
Alaw Primary School bring 1920s Women’s Peace History to life
Alaw Primary School in Tonypandy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, are a ‘peace school’ who know how to make history ‘cool’! Alaw have been using the story behind the Welsh Women’s Peace Petition of 1923 to bring alive subjects across the primary curriculum, as they learned about ‘Annie’s Diary‘ – a journal […]
Remembering for Peace: ‘Turning the Page’ for 11/11 2021
WCIA marked Armistice Day on Thursday 11th November, with a time-honoured tradition of ‘the Turning of the Page’ of Wales’ World War One Book of Remembrance, in the Crypt at the heart of Wales’ Temple of Peace – built as the nation’s memorial to the fallen of WW1, and opened […]
A Hopeful Future
By Amber Demetrius “Hope is the thing with feathers”, wrote Emily Dickinson. It was her poem that occurred to me as I caught a feather that had drifted from the tower of Murcia Cathedral (pictured right). The last time I had been outside of my country had been March 2020 […]
Leaders “inspire audience” at 2021 Global Citizenship conference
Health, Government and third sector leaders spoke at the he Global Citizenship conference by Wales and Africa Health Links Network and Hub Cymru Africa on 3- 4 November. Chief Executive of the Welsh Centre for International Affairs said: “The conference inspired audiences – it made links between past internationalism and […]
Global citizenship modules for NHS launched
The International Health Co-ordinating Centre (IHCC), WHO Collaborating Centre on ‘Investment for Health and wellbeing’, Public Health Wales and WCIA launched the first Global Citizenship e-learning resource for the NHS a the Wales and Africa Health Links Conference on 4 November 2021. This free online learning platform is aimed at […]
Wales Africa Health Links 15th Conference: Celebrating International Development and a ‘heritage of humanity’
Over 3rd and 4th November 2021, WCIA and Hub Cymru Africa facilitated the Wales & Africa Health Links Network Annual Conference, bringing together health practitioners, volunteers community groups and development charities currently active in health interventions and projects Wales and world-wide. The Network was set up from 2006, so this […]