Youth Peace Road

IAYSP-DR Congo organized Youth Peace Road on 20 August 2022 in Kinshasa.

With the aim of promoting peace initiatives, Youth and Students for Peace DRC in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth, Initiation to the New Citizenship and National Cohesion; had organized a youth march for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

This March began at the esplanade of the People’s Palace (parliament) where a message on peace and the objectives of the march was read to the public, in the presence of political authorities, ambassadors for peace as well as young people from all over the city of Kinshasa. It was done on a trajectory of 4 Km with joy and enthusiasm, to manifest the desire to establish peace throughout the national territory and especially in the eastern part of the country which has suffered from the horrors of war for about three decades.

At the end of the march, the Youth of IAYSP DRC had submitted a memorandum to the Director of the Cabinet of the Minister of Youth, memorandum in which IAYSP expressed their wish to accompany the Congolese Government in the materialization of its youth education program; this was followed by a performance of the songs by the New Hope choir, expressing the ardent desire to build a nation of peace.