MANNAM STORY _ MIYC, 10km in their shoes, pledge of peace! (4)

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Today's topic: MIYC, Pledge of Peace, 10 km in their shoes (4)

4 postings about one topic, wow, it's really long! Isn’t it?
Today will be the last day of MIYC.

The last topic is the '10km in their shoes'!!!

What's the purpose of the 10km? Why MIYC prepare 10km?

Actually, this 10km event is not the first 10km event. Last April we also had 10km event in all branches. You can follow this YouTube and can watch the 10km of Gwangju MANNAM.
→ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23NoEX525-Q

On that day, not only Gwangju but also other 12 branches had 10km events at the same time.

Then, why the 10km event was made and what is the aim of the 10km event?

 10km in their shoes was an awareness campaign. Holding the flags of the damaged countries (by war), people shouted the end of the war and world peace out. Through walking, participants were aware of the crises that the world faces now. The crises can be the war, climate change, disaster and dictatorship. (Especially this 10km event was made to oppose to the war.) It was a soundless movement toward the world. All participants walked wishing to show their strong supports to the anti-war movement and those who suffer from the ongoing war. 10km in their shoes was the starting point of MIYC. Through 10km event, MIYC began to act as a representative of many youth organizations working for world peace. It was a great step forward visible world peace.

 'Is it possible to achieve world peace just by walking 10km?' People may think like this. However, if you think about the history again then you can find that all the victories of freedom were made through the revolution. Long time ago, people had to bleed during the revolution, but now people don't need to bleed (ok, I admit nowadays also people sometimes (or often) bleed for the freedom). Thanks to the development of media thing, we can easily share our hopes and thoughts with the people who have the same thoughts with us. In this case, people can gather through Internet (or SNS') and can move together even though they are apart from each other. Nowadays, it is possible to go revolution without blood.

 10km event does not end as one day event. I don’t know the exact day but I heard that soon, 10km events will be held in all over the world. It started from one small country, Korea, but it will spread to the world. One candle can find another candle in the darkness. I think 10km event in Korea is the first lighted candle. And the light of the first candle spreads to the other ‘hidden’ candles. One light looks very small and people may be able to recognize it, but if the lights are put together, people can’t ignore it. It is the characteristic of the light. I think all the movements for world peace are like the candle.

 

It is the badge of MIYC.

We can get this badge after finishing the 10km (3km for us:P).

The mark in the middle is 'thumb prints!'

 Don’t ignore the one weak candle.

 It can burn the entire world.

MANNAM STORY _ MIYC, 10km in their shoes, pledge of peace! (2)

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When Light meets Light there is Victory

This blog will save my memory with MANNAM.

As one of MANNAM members (MANNAMERs), I will post about my life with MANNAM.

 

Today's topic: MIYC, Pledge of Peace, 10 km in their shoes (2)

 

  After finishing the 3km, We (Gwangju MANNAM) went to the zoo. The zoo is really big!

In the zoo, we did scavenger hunt! Each team has 2 big missions. First one is to find 5 things about the peace in the zoo. 1. fight/war 2. reconciliation 3. harmony 4. peace 5.... I can't remember!!!!!! Anyway, there are 5 things that we had to take picture of it. Second one is to bring 'Cloud'.  Our team was divided into 2 teams and my team's mission was to find fight/war, reconciliation and harmony. We didn't have much time so we only could go gorilla and chimpanzee area.... All we took is... gorilla and chimpanzee !!!!! 

 

Can you imagine what it means?

It is a 'peace'.

Why?

If you look carefully the monkey,
then you can see that the monkey carries her (or his!?!?!?) baby on her chest.
Mother and baby, it is a 'peace'

 

  You may think that how it can be the peace but it is peace. As I wrote in MIYC, 10km in their shoes, pledge of peace (1), peace is not that difficult concept. I think first thing that we have to do to achieve world peace is to make people think 'peace' in easy way. If people start to use 'peace' easily, then the burden of the 'world peace' will be less. Let's start one by one.

 

 

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MANNAM STORY _ MIYC, 10km in their shoes, pledge of peace! (1)

MANNAM
When Light meets Light there is Victory

This blog will save my memory with MANNAM.

As one of MANNAM members (MANNAMERs), I will post about my life with MANNAM.

Today's topic: MIYC, Pledge of Peace, 10 km in their shoes (1)

 Last Sunday, I went to Seoul with Gwangju MANNAM members. For what? To participate in the big peace event named 'Pledge of Peace, 10km in their shoes'. This event was hosted by MIYC (MANNAM International Youth Coalition). Many youth groups who are wishing for 'peace' gathered together in Seoul Grand Park and had a meaningful time. Participants were supposed to walk 10 km, but because we are from Gwangju (it takes about 4 hours to go to Seoul from Gwangju ;<) we walked only 3 km. The weather was so good and cherry blossoms were in full bloom. It was really good to walk while thinking the world peace.

 In Seoul Grand Park, there were many many people (foreigners and Korean), and I was happy that it means many people are thinking about the peace. When I heard this event, I doubted that how many people are thinking about the world peace and come to the event? However it turned out that many people are thinking about the world peace and try to do something for the world peace. It made me really really happy.

 Many people think that 'peace' is difficult thing. The friends who went to Seoul with me also thought that 'peace' is a difficult concept. It is because they never thought about the peace before. Same with me, before joining MANNAM, I also thought that world peace is a good but vague thing. (Thanks MANNAM!) For me, I think that this event was really meaningful in making people think about the 'peace' in light concept.




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