Lovely food, meeting and reflection; these are the ingredients of the 'community dinner' that IofC and De Luisteracademie organised for young delegates from the One Young World Summit. During the summit in The Hague 1900 participants from 196 countries followed an intens program packed with speeches and networking opportunities. The dinner at the IofC-centre was a moment of quiet and inspiration, talking with fellow changemakers.

This fall the fifth gathering of the initiative Faith in Green, in Dutch ‘Geloven in Groen’, will take place in The Hague. Muslims, Hindus and Christians gather around their common beliefs of taking care for and protecting the earth and inspire and connect to take (joint) action to make their faith community more sustainable. Initiatives of Change Netherlands (IofC) coordinates and facilitates the initiative that kicked-off in August one year ago.

Suresh Vazirani from Mumbai, India was unanimously appointed by Global Assembly of the International Association as the new President for IofC International.

What is the role of a journalist in a country at war? With many of his compatriots thinking that journalists should be information warriors, finding the answer to this question is an everyday struggle for Ukrainian journalist Oleksiy Matsuka. ‘Some of our readers expect us to defend our country. But we want to protect our independence as journalists. How can we make sure we don’t fall prey to propaganda as journalists in the middle of a war? How do we keep presenting information without bias?’

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Ukrainian Olena Kashkarova works to restore the mutual trust in her deeply divided country. On th 5th of april she spoke about her experiences in the centre of Initiatives of Change Netherlands.

Digna loved flowers, it said on the funeral announcement. And flowers loved her. The choir of the Kievitkerk in Wassenaar, where her farewell service was held on February 16, was completely covered with flower arrangements, while the sun shone through the windows of a packed church. The whole service was marked with tremendous gratitude for Digna's adventurous life, but there was also the sense of disbelief that so suddenly she was no longer there. During the musical intervals photos were projected of a joyous and lively Digna, amidst family and friends.

‘We want to help 25,000 people with disabilities by 2021’, said Merel Rumping, who spoke to a captivated audience on Tuesday 20 February, at the London centre of Initiatives of Change. The focus of her talk was about founding LegBank, a social enterprise providing life-saving prosthetics to land mine victims in Colombia.

With growing activities in Switzerland, and as part of the Initiatives of Change (IofC) global movement, 'the CAUX-Initiatives of Change Foundation' seized the opportunity of the global IofC brand refresh, to change their name to 'Initiatives of Change Switzerland'.

The 2017 edition of CATS (Children as Actors for Transforming Society), part of the Caux Forum, saw the launch of the 90 Day Challenge. The idea was simple: CATS participants thoroughly explored their ideas for a range of topics including the environment, education and peace whilst at Caux. Once home, from 20 August 2017, they had 90 days to put their ideas into action. The aim was to provide the participants with the necessary drive and motivation to dive in and to make a start on a project despite not having to necessarily produce results.