Hope in the Cities Shares Skills Internationally

(Cricket White, left, and Hind Makki right, with Imam Ajmal Masroor. Photo: Esmat Hassan)(Cricket White, left, and Hind Makki right, with Imam Ajmal Masroor. Photo: Esmat Hassan)The Hope in the Cities team helped facilitate an international Tools for Change conference August 9-15, in Caux,Switzerland. Sixty-five young Muslims from the UK, France, Sweden, Netherlands, and Germany were among the 380 participants from 50 countries. 

A faculty drawn from 13 countries delivered skills building courses designed to increase capacity for bringing about effective change in communities.

Cricket White, Hope in the Cities training director, facilitated a course on “honest conversation” with Hind Makki of Interfaith Youth Core. HIC national director Rob Corcoran and Richmond HIC co-chair Anjum Ali led a course on "building and maintaining diverse teams." Read the 2009 Conference  Highlights