Practicing Peace with Children through Community Peace Libraries
Presentation Raissa Avery Marfa | Moderator: Katie Day
Explore how children in the community embrace peace through our peace library, where young minds read, listen, and interact with curated stories that exemplify behaviours that foster cultures of peace and justice. Discover the gentle influence of our peace library, which encourages children to embody peace within their community.
Raissa Avery Marfa (Philippines)
Raissa Avery Marfa, a literacy and peace worker from Bantayan Island, Cebu, Philippines, collaborates with Friends Peace Teams to establish peace libraries. Committed to fostering peace and community empowerment, she conducts storytelling sessions, develops children’s books in local languages, and pursues a master’s degree in Reading Education at the University of the Philippines.
Moderator Katie Day (Singapore)
Katie Day is an American teacher-librarian who has lived in Asia since 1997, including Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, and Singapore. She is actively involved in the Red Dot Book Awards (Singapore), the Neev Book Awards (India) and the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative (GLLI) YA Translated Book Prize.
Programme dates and times are subject to change.