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What is Global Marawi?

is a youth organization based in Marawi City, Philippines. It is composed of Young Leaders and Volunteers from different places in Mindanao, specifically from places where armed conflicts are very evident such as in Lanao del Sur and Marawi City. Despite the diverse backgrounds of each members, their passion in attaining the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 braced them together to empower the youth; develop and implement capacity and peace-building programs; and promote the Maranao culture as a whole to foster understanding and achieve sustainable peace in the Philippines and in the whole wide world. 

 History
  
The organization started as a group with five members on July 28, 2018 in a peace camp in Davao City, Philippines. Since then, their leader, Bin Nur Asi Magangcong, a resident from Marawi City and a student of Mindanao State University-Main Campus, after implementing their very first project, Lanao: Singa Ka Man! Project (literally means "make some smile!") and saw its impact on the IDPs Children (IDPs or Internally Displaced Persons are the evacuees displaced during the Marawi Siege), their smiles from ear to ear, the sounds of their laughter and their parents supportive "woes" made him wonder, "what could be possibly be there to maintain that scene?". Then it hit him, he decided not to stop there, he wanted to maintain that smiles and pursue more projects to even grow that smiles.Global Marawi now becoming an organization with 15 members, students and young professionals, from different places in the Philippines aiming to attain the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

Vision

Global Marawi envisions the whole Philippine society living harmoniously where religion is not a hindrance in helping one another to attain sustainable peace and development through implementing community innovations both in local and global context
Mission

Global Marawi is determined in transforming the lives of the peoples in Lanao del Sur and uplift its socioeconomic status by providing an avenue for the youth in developing and implementing sustainable community projects, social movements, and initiatives aligned to the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals for an active and productive future, and eternal hope for future generations.

OBJECTIVES
Global Marawi aims to;

1.  To empower the young generation in the Philippines to be an agent of peace in promoting cultural diversity and understanding towards the Moros or the minority Muslims in the Philippines both in an online or offline context to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

 2. Build a network of young leaders from different areas always affected by armed conflicts in Mindanao particularly in Lanao del Sur and Marawi City to produce globally competitive, critical thinker, young Moro leaders in the Philippines.

3. Develop and implement a capacity and peace-building program, aligned to the 17 SDGs, every year in Marawi City and/or in some neighboring municipalities to achieve sustainable peace and socioeconomic development of the province by 2030.


SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM

You can visit and like Global Marawi in Facebook.

Our Social Media platform aims to eradicate misunderstandings, stereotypes, and other stigmas that generalizes the Moros or the minority Muslims in Mindanao, as "terrorists and war-freaks" which leads to Islamophobia. Through posting opportunities and, advocacy and culture-related things in our page, we aim to empower the whole Philippine society to be an agent of peace by lifting fears, eradicating Islamophobia and cultural misunderstanding towards Muslims and to attain peace and socioeconomic development in the region.


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