MCN's Summer Rundown
What an end to the summer! MCN has been busy getting ready for the upcoming school year while completing a summer filled with civic activities, diversity education, youth leadership development programs and a once in a lifetime experience for youth in our interfaith generation peace fellowship program. We planned an extraordinary event with the NYC Office of Appointments on how to become an appointed judge in New York City, with our partners at the Muslim Bar Association of NY. We presented two diversity education presentations for NYC employees at the Office of Emergency Management and one for the Center for New York City Neighborhoods. These training modules are essential tools to combat discrimination and biases against the Muslim community of our city. We conducted two Muslim youth summits, which are one-day workshops for Muslim youth to learn about leadership and develop social justice organizing skills. We hosted a self-defense workshop in the Bronx, thanks kindly to our funder the Brooklyn Community Foundation. We also started our inaugural series of Muslim Stakeholder Roundtable gatherings with other Muslim/Muslim serving community-based organizations in an effort to coordinate our efforts to address the issues facing the Muslim community. Finally, we organized a civic action day around migrant rights and immigration, issues that are deeply impacting the Muslim community.
Our Generation Peace Fellows completed their interfaith trip to the Rose Castle Foundation in Cumbria, the United Kingdom on August 4th. The trip brought together youth from the Muslim and Christian faith backgrounds and delved into peacebuilding and conflict resolution skill-building. Least to say, the experience was transformative for all the participants. MCN is truly proud to support the next generation of peacebuilders and civic leaders in our community! We are so grateful to the All Angels Church for being our program partner and sponsor for this youth-trip.
Aniqa Nawabi
Executive Director
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