African Projects for Peace and Love Initiatives Inc. Nfp
Draft Grant Application

Project: Launching 960 Youth Peace Alliance Clubs in Jr. and Sr. Public
and Private Secondary Schools in Lagos State, Nigeria.

Organization name:  African Projects for Peace and Love Initiatives

Year founded: 2003

Contact Address: 17195 Apple Tree Drive, Country Club Hills, IL 64708

Phone: 708.647.9880      Fax: 708.647.9870        e-mail:
admin@africanprojectsforpeace.org

Website: www.africanprojectsforpeace.org

1.          Some Background Information?

Youth violence is rapidly destroying the fabrics of African communities. In the
last 60 years no sub-sector of the African communities has been spared of
youth violence. Youth violence comes in various colors and shades,
overwhelming and intimidating the authorities.  Youth violence is everywhere: at
homes among siblings, in the neighborhoods among the people, on buses and
trains, at sport arenas, public places and entertainment houses, but most
unfortunately in institutions of learning. The hardest hit sector by youth
violence is the schools, and the authorities appear overwhelmed and helpless.

At this juncture in the history of youth development in Africa, new leaders must
emerge who have the discernment and determination to do something bold,
urgent and rapid to curtail youth violence. The call of the problem sounds
louder than religious, tribal or political partisanships. This is something on
which everyone must work if we want to make a difference. Teachers, parents,
religious leaders, the civic society, professionals, business men and women, we
all must figure out how to do the work of reorienting our youths from violence to
peace, from hatred to love, destruction to rebuilding, from lost to restoration.

The core objective and mission for Youth Peace and Nation Building program is
to convert the militant and violent African youths in schools and colleges to
peace loving and resourceful youths for nation building, progress and
development through the structured education for peace and socio-cultural
adjustment programs designed and developed by APPLI.

2.        APPLI is calling for Change

Everyone knows that a change is over due for Africa. But no-one knows where
to begin. Change is not bliss because it demands a price and a sacrifice.
However, if any people can endure the anguish of change and pay the price for
development, change will usher in for them a new world. At personal level, the
key to successful living is continuous personal change. At societal level,
change calls for socio-cultural adjustments. For change to come leaders in
every sector of the society must embrace a vision for change and their
behavior must reflect a transformational paradigm. Everyone must be prepared
to contribute behaviors and lifestyles that will encourage, promote and enhance
change. The need for change cannot be externalized; it has to start with the
inner convictions of the individual.

The information contained in this presentation is not a case study. It is a
proposal and an aid memoir for youth peace and nation building. It is also a
tool for change. However, to make this proposal an effective tool for change,
various pedagogical approaches will be employed. Participants in the programs
being promoted through this proposal will engage in extra-mural activities, role
plays, case studies, youth peace and nation building, youth economic
empowerment projects, leadership training, career counseling, character
development, building the body, soul and spirit, learning positive peer pressure
tactics, information technology and globalization, creativity and innovation, and
most importantly, character.

APPLI decided that for true change – we must start with the children.  Also, we
must engage young people who need the most help – children and youth at all
school levels. For this reason APPLI has dedicated three of its grassroots
peace clubs to Youth Peace and Nation Building. These are:

I.        The African Children of Peace Clubs – The African Children of Peace
Club, with its theme of “Catch Them Young for Peace,” is dedicated to children
in nursery, kindergarten and primary schools. The object of this club is to
transform the African children of conflict to peace instead of violence. APPLI
believes that the idea of entrenching children in the old conflicts and ancestral
hatreds should stop. Adults should allow the children to grow their own sense of
how peaceful they want their world to be and stop forcing upon those innocent
minds our “failed” approach to global human relationship. It should no longer
be “si pacem, para bellum; but “si pacem, para pacem.” These clubs are
targeted at African children in kindergartens and elementary schools. It is the
man of peace that has a future, not the man of violence. If we insist on teaching
hatred and violence to children, whether through religion or ideology, we are
indirectly closing the future of humanity as a global family.

The international press is delighted in displaying little children in Africa as
children of conflicts, and the international consortia of humanitarian societies,
though doing a deserving service, is over-exploiting the plights of the
traumatized African child; but APPLI desires to change these kids to children of
peace by imparting to them at their young age the opportunities that could
transform them into adolescences of dignity and pride.

II.        The Youth Peace Alliance Clubs, popularly referred to as Y-PAC, is
targeted at all youths and adolescence in or outside religious or academic
environment. Y-PAC attempts to create an alliance among a people who want
to stand in solidarity with one another for peace, both in their immediate, near
and far communities. Members of this club wears a silver ring upon which the
word Y-PAC is engraved as a mark of their identification that they prefer peace
to violence at all times. Members of this club have resolved not to partake in
violence, be onlookers of violence nor paid to be entertained by violence. They
are opinionated about how to deal with violence in their environment and the
world around them. For this purpose of this proposal Y-PAC is dedicated to
young Africans in public and private Junior and Senior Secondary Schools
within the Six Schools Districts in Lagos State Nigeria.

III.        The KAIROS Peace and Love Clubs are targeted at the institutions of
higher leaning in Africa - It needs to be emphasized that schools are models for
society in its entire ramification. Ranking next to Ethnoreligious conflicts in
Africa is student riots and student violence. The situation at Africa institution of
higher learning is worse because many factors (ethnic identity conflicts, tribal
hatred, religious differences, socio-cultural diversities, economic hardship,
political and ideological differences and campus cult practices) combine to
create student violence on campuses. The spate of religious riots and cult
killings in African campuses is alarming. The cults have turned the citadels of
learning in African higher institutions of learning to battlefield of undeclared
wars. Many promising lives had been cut short in their prime ages by campus
violence. The dreams of many families had been dashed through the wicked
killings of their children and many parents have been thrown into perpetual
sorrows. Incessant news reports on campus killings are indeed ear-tingling and
mind-boggling.

3.        What is the Population Served?

African Projects for Peace and Love Initiatives (APPLI), in collaboration with its
Nigerian Chapter, African Foundation for Peace and Love Initiatives (AFPLI) is
promoting the Youth Peace Alliance Clubs in the 1,000 Junior and Senior
Secondary Schools in the Six School Districts of Lagos State Nigeria under
APPLI’s Youth Peace and Nation Building Program. The schools are made up
of about 700 public and 300 private schools. Each school has about 24 to 30
classrooms.

4.        What is the Purpose of this Grant Request?

Funds are requested to organize the training of the facilitators and teachers for
the launching of Youth Peace Alliance Clubs in Six School Districts of Lagos
State. Monthly permanent personnel cost has been estimated at $15,700.00, i.
e. $188,400 for one year. The average cost of launching Y-PAC in each school
is $200.00, which includes training of teachers and facilitators, procurement of
training materials and venues, and gifts to each school district office. For the
960 schools the cost will be $192,000.00. This is an average monthly cost of
$32,000 if all the clubs can be launched in a scheduled period of six months. A
detailed calculation of these costs is shown on Page 8 below.

5.         What needs would be met?

APPLI is first a proactive peace movement and second an intervention peace
movement. APPLI believes that prevention of war and violence is better and
cheaper than intervention. APPLI is therefore systematically employing
pedagogical, sociological, cultural, street rallies and preaching, and various
forms of African arts to proactively promote Peacebuilding in the African
community.

Lagos State, where APPLI is launching its clusters of Youth Peace Alliance
Clubs, in 1,000 private and public Junior and schools, was until few years ago
serving the dual purpose of being the capital of Nigeria and a cosmopolitan
State, with the city of Ikeja being the seat of the State Government. The
population of Lagos State is now estimated at over 20 million and the State is
permanent residence, work place and business center for all ethnic groupings
in Nigeria and other people from Africa. Lagos has witnessed all forms of
violence: religious, political, tribal, economic, student unrest, to name a few. By
all possible definitions, Lagos as a sprawling and rapidly developing city is also
a slum.  The rate of crime in Lagos overshadows the rate of the rest parts of
the country put together.

6.        APPLI Programs Have Real Results

Through its KAIROS Peace and Love Clubs launched in institutions of higher
learning, APPLI has made a tremendous impact on students, lectures and
administrative staff of university campuses like Olabisi Onabanjo University,
Ago-Iwoye; the Federal University of Technology, Akure; Adeyemi College of
Education, Ondo; and Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba. Members of the
KAIROS Peace and Love Clubs are proud to be identified as peacemakers on
their campuses. Student unions that hitherto were militant when making
demands are now employing peaceful means to resolve conflicts instead of
violence.

Through the KAYERO Peace and Love Clubs launched in religious houses
such as Churches and Mosques, APPLI is building interfaith and intertribal
goodwill among different religious adherents and ethnic groups. The club
leaderships are learning how to avoid violence engineering by learning and
engaging basic principles of conflict resolution.

The Youth Peace Alliance Clubs are a new experiment, yet the approval it has
received from the officials of the Six School Districts in Lagos State is an
indication that the clubs are a welcome idea.

7.        Why is APPLI the appropriate group to meet such needs?

In Chapters three and four of his thesis (monograph), Rev. Oyeyemi (2004)
submitted a working definition and did an extensive analysis of the philosophy
and pedagogy of the structured peace education for Africa. He emphasized
that “the philosophy of the structured education for peace is to produce African
experts that could specialize in peacemaking, Peacebuilding, and conflict
transformation techniques that are compatible to the needs of Africans”
(Oyeyemi, p43, 2004). Oyeyemi analyzed 25 models of peacemaking,
Peacebuilding and conflict transformation processes to highlight why these
methods inherently failed to work for peace in Africa.

As for the pedagogical process, Rev Oyeyemi has emphasized the education of
the will quoting Bainton (1990) that “all of the devices thus far considered for
the elimination of war will be futile without the will to peace.”

In order to be totally and effectively relevant APPLI has designed its
Peacebuilding program in such a way that the teacher and the student will work
together as members of the same community traumatized by violence, thus
moving beyond mere sympathy and empathy into a “those who know it feel it
situation.”

8.        How does APPLI differ from other Peacebuilding organizations in
Africa?

The desire of APPLI is to revolutionize Peacebuilding in Africa. APPLI is moving
beyond pity politics into Conscientization, Innovation, Creativity and
Transformation to build sustainable and lasting foundations for peace in Africa.
There is no doubt that for now APPLI organizing logic is Christian in nature, but
we have perceived that there is a need to discover and develop precisely how
to fulfill the basic Christian precepts about charity and freedom in an
uncontroversial manner if we have to gain the confidence and cooperation of
the majority of non-Christian fellow Africans, in a society that is so
contemporary but yet not so contiguous, except for topography and geography.

9.        What are the expected benefits and how would they be
measured?

IMMEDIATE, SHORT AND LONG TERM PROGRAM GOALS

I.        The immediate goal is to create the opportunities for Peacebuilding and
character education among African Youth, starting from the schools, and
thereby reduce violence and encourage the cultivation of a new lifestyle of
peace.

II.        The short term goal is to make way for the infusion of APPLI curriculum
for peace into the government official curriculum to be taught in the same way
as health and sex education in schools.

III.        To bring about an African Renaissance toward promoting the Africa
Future Land of Peace in an environment where everyone feels safe, valued,
and loved.

10.        Training Facilitators and Certifying the Teachers

This is a thoroughly conceived and well planned project. The various School
District Authorities have bought into the program in the same way the
authorities in institutions of higher learning have bought into our KAIROS
Peace Clubs.

In addition to training the facilitators and teachers on how to implement the
launching of the Youth Peace Alliance Clubs, APPLI, through its TimeOn
KAIROS Peace Academy will be offering two-tier certification training in basic
conflict resolution techniques and practices. Currently APPLI is conducting a
quarterly training in basic conflict resolution to its clubs leadership, but it hopes
to add a one-monthly yearly program for the purpose of certifying teachers that
will teach its peace curriculum in secondary schools.

11.        Outcome-based Objectives

I.        A new pattern of leadership is emerging as we promote this new culture
of peace lifestyle among teachers, students of all ages, and their parents.

II.        In each of the 1,000 Junior and Senior Secondary School, there are at
least 24 classes, with an average of 50 students per class. If, by our estimation,
100,000 students could become members of the Youth Peace Alliance Club
within one year, i.e. 100 students per school.

12.       The past working timeline of APPLI consisted of the following:

I.        Visionary Stage: August 1996 – August 1999
II.        Conceptual and Design State
II.1.        MDIV at Oral Roberts University August 1999 - May 2002
II.2.         MAPS at Associated Mennonite Seminary May 2002 – May 2004
III.        Mid-Term: May 2002 – December 2005
III.1.        Founding and Establishing Organizational Structures
III.2.        Generating Awareness and Building Stage
III.3.        Testing the Environment by starting various grassroots peace clubs
and city chapters
III.4.        Vocational training of various kinds and starting of Doctoral Program
in Leadership
IV.        Long Term: January 2006 –
IV.1.        Starting Youth Peace Alliance Clubs in Six School Districts of Lagos
State
IV.2.        Creating Mini-Peace Libraries and Peace Education Centers
IV.3.        Certifying Teachers to teaching APPLI Peace Curriculum in Schools
IV.4.        Launching More Grassroots Peace Clubs
IV.5.        Pursuing the founding of TimeOn KAIROS Peace Academy

13.        What we have done in the Past?

i.        The organization has launched more than 35 grassroots peace and love
clubs in Nigeria since its inception less than two years ago.
ii.        The organization has conducted more than 15 street peace rallies in the
Lagos, Ogun, and Ondo States of Nigeria. Our first street peace rallies were
conducted to encourage the peaceful elections of April 2003.
iii.        The organization is working with various universities in Nigeria to launch
their peace clubs. We have launched peace clubs in the following schools:
        Olabisi Onabanjo University Ago Iwoye, Ogun State
        Federal University of Technology, Akure in Ondo State
        Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, Ondo state,
        Single Gate Nursery and Primary School, Akowonjo, Lagos State
        Pentecostal Children School, Dopemu Agege,  Lagos State
iv.        The organization has designed and developed two major curriculums
        A 40-course post-secondary peace curriculum entitled “Equipping the
New African Peacebuilder”
        A 52-lesson curriculum entitled “Youth Peace and Nation Building for Jr.
and Sr. Secondary Schools”
        We are also building a library of resources and engaging in network
activities with existing institutions, NGOs, community and religious leaders.
        We are also building international working relationships to make our
work conform to international standards.
v.        In collaboration with the Federal University of Technology Akure, APPLI
has inaugurated a steering committee to work on how its Youth Economic
Empowerment Program will take off.
vi.        The organization as a faith-base, distributes symbolic peace items such
as peace t-shirts to make the faith confession for Africa Future Land of Peace
a public slogan.
vii.        Establishment of field office in Nigeria and substantial investment in
acquiring land for our proposed TimeOn Kairos Peace Academy

14.       Sources of Past Funding

Funding of past expenditure has come predominantly from family, (Mrs.
Fehintola Oyeyemi, working sixteen hours five-days a week to support her
husband), and a friend (Mr. James Hunt of Lexington Kentucky who met Titus at
a prayer house at Oral Roberts University in April of 1999). Titus, the founding
President and CEO of APPLI is a full-time volunteer and the immediate
members of his family (including his first daughter, an engineering graduate at
UNILAG) are working with him on stipends.

15.        The estimated cost of financing the 2006 expenditure is as
shown below:
1.        Personnel

1.1.        President/CEO (Working in USA and Africa)
      
i.        3 return flight tickets at $2,000.00 per flight        $        6,000.00
ii.        One year salary at $3,000.00 per month        $        36,000.00
iii.        Benefits and allowances                        $          6,000.00

1.2.        2 Supporting staff (hired/contract) in USA

i.        One year salary at $3,000.00 per month $        36,000.00
ii.        Benefits and allowances                     $          6,000.00

Sub-total (1.0.)                                                $ 90,000.00

2.0.        Permanent Personnel in Nigeria

2.1.        National Coordinator at $1,000.00 per month        $         12,000.00
2.2.        4 Regional Coordinators $1,000.00 per month         $         48,000.00
2.3.        20 Additional staff (Trainer/Fac/Admin) at $500/month      120,000.00

                      Sub-total (2.0.)                                                                  
180,000.00                        
Average personnel cost per month ($270000/12) = $22,500.00
       
3.0.        Estimated direct expenses for Launching Y-PAC Clubs. The School
Districts Officials have demanded that a specific amount of honorarium should
be paid to 2 assigned teachers.

3.1.        School District I        (170 schools, 340 teachers)
3.2.        School District II        (155 schools, 310 teachers)
3.3.        School District III        (150 schools, 300 teachers)
3.4.        School District IV        (160 schools, 320 teachers)
3.5.        School District V        (150 schools, 300 teachers)
3.6.        School District VI        (175 schools, 350 teachers)                 

To find 960 Y-PAC in 6 months at an average of $300.00 per school   =
$288,000.00

Monthly average $288,000/6monhs = $48,000.00

Total Cost (Personnel and Operating Expenses) for six months $135,000
+$288,000 = $423,000.00

Average Monthly personnel and launching is therefore $22,500 +
$48,000.00 = $70,500.00

Minimum one month take off grant $70,500.00 needed by December 30,
2005.

Three months take off grant $211,500.00.

16.        Other Needs

1.        Transportation:  2 Cars and 1 Minivan
2.        One Heavy Duty Electric Generator
3.        Expansion of APPLI offices in Lagos to accommodate more staff
4.        1 Laptop and 2 Desktop PC Computers
5.        Shipment cost for 40 tons container of books donated by Books for
Africa from USA to Lagos for the mini-library to be donated to 960 schools.

17.        Saving Costs by Encouraging Grassroots Actors to Participate
in Peacebuilding

It is disheartening to see how much grassroots actors are precluded from
Peacebuilding. International donors, unfortunately, are yet to embrace the
contributions that the grassroots middle level actors can bring to
Peacebuilding. They discourage local initiatives by refusing to finance them,
even when the ideas the promote are cheaper and are much likely to work
better. The focus of APPLI is to introduce the art of Peacebuilding to grassroots
and middle level actors. For this reason, APPLI is penetrating into religious
houses, schools, colleges, and universities to sensitize them to work for Africa,
the Future Land of Peace.

18.      A Personal Appeal for Support

The undersigned personally appeal to peace lovers and people of courage to
support him in this work which is based on a divine vision. The testimony of
personal effort to turn this heavenly vision to a mission can be seen from
paragraphs 13 and 14 of this request and also from the website www.
africanprojectsforpeace.org. The future of this vision depends on how the
Children of Peace will embrace this new approach to Peacebuilding in Africa.

Thank you. Shalom. Peace. KAYERO!

Rev. Titus K. Oyeyemi
President/CEO and Peaceworker
African Projects for Peace and Love Initiatives
TimeOn Kairos Peace Academy