Forgotten Promises

It is a little known fact that there are over 100 ongoing conflicts and crisis currently around the world. Outside of the Middle East, most of these conflicts are shunned by, and receive almost no attention from the media despite many of these conflicts having claimed thousands of lives. Shunned by the international community at large they have become the world’s 'forgotten conflicts'.

Several millions children and young people are confronted daily with war, and have no chance to tell the outer world about their lives, hopes and expectations, nor the way they perceive conflicts and their struggle to survive.

An even less known fact is that of the vastly untapped potential of young people in these zones and the significant role they can play in peace building and community development.

These two little known facts form the heart of the motivation driving the team of seven hard working young people behind ‘Forgotten Diaries’ (FD).

FD also aims to continue the long-standing tradition of young people keeping a diary of their lives and their struggles in conflicts (as much as those of Anne Frank and Zlata Filipovic). The internationally acclaimed organisation, Youth Action for Change (YAC) offers them a platform though this project to voice their thoughts, feelings and hopes and promotes ongoing dialogues between young people from all sides of the identified conflicts as well as the global audience.