For The
Shalom Center for Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation (Shalom-SCCRR)
Founded by Rev. Dr. Patrick Devine in 2009
INFORMATION; To the Supporters who provide
Auction prizes, Sponsorship and Teams,
Shalom-SCCRR is centered on transforming the underlying causes of conflict and crippling poverty. We are not a symptom-focused remedy organization. Whether it be in the semi-arid desert plains or the urban slums where people scrape an existence to survive, Shalom is there in their midst. We continue to deal with and transform situations of appalling danger, inter-ethnic conflict, religious ideological extremism, and violence against women and children particularly among the 2 million+ slum populations, and the devastating effects of lack of necessary institutions to enable people to meet their basic human needs and actualize their potential.
Over the past 16 years of Shalom-SCCRR’s work in Eastern Africa, and the results built on the generosity of supporters like you are evidential. In that time, Shalom has:
- Completed 802 school and educational development projects across 452 institutions, directly benefiting 249,333 pupils and students, over half of them girls.
- Empowered 39,615 influential peace actors, chiefs, elders, religious leaders, women, youth, and security personnel through 1,296 conflict transformation and peacebuilding training workshops in 36 violent conflict locations.
- Supported 37 health and medical centers with vital equipment in the most marginalized and conflict-affected areas of Northern Kenya and South Sudan.
- Established 59 active School Peace Clubs, engaging over 168,000 pupils and students in conflict transformation and peace education.
- Equipped 4,017 women from urban informal settlements with the knowledge and skills to prevent human and organ trafficking.
- Achieved a 73% success rate in preventing and mitigating violent inter-ethnic conflicts through locally-developed early warning systems.
A big cultural shift has been the empowerment of women within Shalom’s programs, 62% of participants in 2025 were women, up from a mere 2% a decade ago. A tremendous validation of their dignity, competency and capacity for specialized leadership.
I am deeply proud to share that Shalom continues to expand its reach Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan in ways that would have seemed extraordinary when we began. We have recently established the Center for Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding (CCTPB) in Tanzania, now formally registered and operational. Chaired by Fr. Janusz Machota MA, and bringing together representatives from diverse professional backgrounds, the CCTPB will focus on conflict transformation and peacebuilding, addressing justice, reconciliation, cultural violence, human and organ trafficking, and religious ideological extremism, alongside vital school and educational development programmes. A particular priority will be the safeguarding of vulnerable groups, including people with albinism, who face grave risks in the region. This launch is the fruit of years of dedicated effort and sets the stage for significantly strengthened peace, justice, and reconciliation work across Tanzania and the broader region. We are enormously grateful to the Government of Tanzania for their support and certification.
Our work is also now extending into the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country long ravaged by some of the most severe and protracted violence on the African continent. Guided by Shalom’s vision and methodology, our consultant Rev. Dr. Emmanuel Tembo has been leading Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding Training Workshops in North Kivu Province in Eastern DRC since 2022, with a series of workshops held in Goma running through to 2025. These interventions are strengthening local communities’ capacity to analyze, prevent, and respond to conflict in a region that has known little peace. This is Shalom’s vision made real that no community, however remote or ravaged by violence and disease, such as Ebola, is beyond the reach of hope and healing.
Shalom-SCCRR identifies with your own business models also in believing that, theory without practice is empty and practice without theory is blind’. Your presence with us is never taken for granted. We honor you each day, in action, with the Shalom team and highly trained men and women who put their sweat and tears into building lasting peace, digging foundations, mixing concrete, and carrying equipment on their heads and shoulders across hot, semi-arid terrains and through the narrow lanes of urban slums.
On behalf of the hundreds of thousands of people whose burdens you are transforming through Shalom-SCCRR (www.shalomconflictcenter.org), I thank everyone who will participate to support the Moor Park Fundraiser on September, 22nd at Moor Park.
Your donation will go 100% to our work in Africa, with 95 cents going directly into our peace, educational, medical and water development projects on the ground.
I remain in solidarity with you and your own endeavors too. Always there to help you too! God bless.
Sincerely,
Fr. Patrick Devine, PhD, Shalom-SCCRR Executive International Chairman & Founder
If you’re interested in supporting, please contact and copy all:
Rev. Dr. Patrick Devine: pdevine@shalomconflictcenter.org
Esther Kibe: eclairekibe@shalomconflictcenter.org
Moses Osiro: m.osiro@shalomconflictcenter.org
