Origin of ‘Kids for Peace’

AT 12 years old, Rosan Aliya Agbon started Kids for Peace. This was around 2000 during the “all-out war” by the then President Joseph Estrada.
She saw two fighter planes ready to drop bombs. At first she was happy but then she realized the bombs can kill anyone. So she wrote an open letter to ask for peace messages and to make evacuees know that there are people who care. This letter was then e-mailed by her mother and it was read at a radio station.
The first person to respond was a soldier. He gave P500 as his contribution. Soon, more contributions poured in from Australia, America, New Zealand, and Germany.
They were art supplies and drawings which Aliyah brought and gave to the evacuees in provinces near Cotabato City. To make her increasingly popular initiative official, Aliyah named it Kids for Peace and registered it with SEC. This is how her journey of officially helping others began.
“Creating Sinag Within’s Mission 1” in August 2017 and “Mission 2” in October 2017 were both initiated by Kids for Peace Foundation Inc. with support from teachers of Steiner/Waldorf schools in Luzon and in Mindanao and from health workers from various community managed primary health programs in Digos City, Kidapawan City, and Arakan, North Cotabato.
College graduates from Tawi-Tawi, Iligan, Cagayan, and Marawi also volunteered during the two Creating Sinag Within missions despite being siege survivors themselves. They felt a compelling need to leave their families, put their job searching on hold, and help out in evacuation centers.

(For more information about how to support the next activities of Creating Sinag Within, visit facebook.com/creatingsinagwithin or contact the founder and director, Rosan Aliya Agbon at creatingsinagwithin@gmail.com.)