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 (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.
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 (3) Last two posts were about my personal experience with MIYC 10 km. Today, I will post about the MIYC itself. What it is and what is the purpose of MIYC ! What is MIYC? MIYC is the acronym of MANNAM International Youth Coalition. MIYC site says that "MIYC was formed from groups of young people coming together with the vision and determination to unite people across borders, cultures, languages and races. MIYC aims to foster a spirit of appreciation and respect for the diversity of humanity, as well as for all individuals that create that diversity." What is the aim of MIYC? MIYC will organize some projects throughout the year and organizations that decided to join the movement of MIYC will engage in those projects. For those projects, there will be a youth summits and summit's aim is to develop practical and sustainable solutions to the challenges facing us in the pursuit of peace. Nobody wants war/fight. Everybody wants peace. Then why the peace couldn't be obtained until now? Because we coulnd't bring our power together. MIYC's role is to combine people's power into one way. One by one, all youth organization will join the movement of MIYC and MIYC will become more powerful. Each of us is very small, but if we put together, we can be a big power. In my humble opinion, MIYC is a very ideal coalition. MIYC is not just a group, it is a 'coalition'. You may know the clear meaning of coalition. A coalition is 'agroupconsisting ofpeoplefromdifferentpoliticalorsocialgroupswhoareco-operatingtoachieveaparticularaim. MIYC was made only to cooperate with each other aiming to world peace. That's all. Nobody can say that it is for specific one group. It can not be like that MIYC is just a good way to gather together in the name of world peace. I hope MIYC spread more further than now and through MIYC world peace would be made.
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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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