Sunshine Family Volunteers (SFV), formerly Family Volunteers for Peace, is an initiative of Global Peace Women that seeks to build a culture of service and peace around the world.
We invite interested families to join a local club, become a coordinator or mentor, or simply volunteer together and share your story.
Introductory Brochure
We are excited to present to you the Sunshine Family Volunteers Grant (SFV Grant). This grant will seek to support the sunshine family coordinators who are the facilitators for families interested in participating in this sunshine family volunteers project with GPW to become peacemakers in their communities and the world.
The SFV Grant seeks to fund qualifying projects led by innovative Sunshine family coordinators from around the world that can contribute to encouraging families to serve communities together and practice a culture of service, ultimately working towards bringing peace around the world.
Founder, I-CARE Women & Youth Initiative, Nigeria
Former Deputy Minister of Higher Education & Commissioner, UNESCO, Philippines
Pastor and Co-Founder, Robert Schuller Ministries, United States
President, Human Rights Teaching International, Netherlands
Co-Pastor, the Lighthouse Church, United States
Trustee, Chandaria Foundations, Kenya
Senator, Republic of Paraguay
Contact: Young Women Rise, P.O.Box 45, Chimwalira.
Phone number: +265889452745 / +265999568812
Email Address: milliamchilemba@gmail.com
mimiechilemba@yahoo.com
Milliam is the Executive Director and founder of Young Women's Rise (YOWORI). She is the former Global. o Youth representative in the Country I’m I ok ok Mechanism (GFCCM). Milliam is a strong ok advocate for girl education The girls to retain in school. Her passion for her work grew after surviving a lot of circumstances in her I hi life. She is a survivor of early and forced marriagek. She is also a survivor of gender-based violence from her then-forced husband. In an effort to promote girl child education, Milliam started a school support scheme in her home area of Chiradzulu through which she recruited 20 needy learners from one community day secondary school.
Milliam holds Bachelors Degree in Education (French) obtained from Mzuzu University in Malawi. And she is now doing Masters of Business Administration with Amity University. She has obtained the following certificates online
Phone number: +977 986-0484474
Email Address: shristikabajracharya@gmail.com
Shristika is a law school graduate and is working as a social engineer and SFV coordinator.She is thrilled to represent Nepal globally as a coordinator and team leader. She’s a law degree graduate and working as a social engineer. She has received awards for being the best SFV coordinator in 2022 and recognition as a top global peacebuilder 2021. She is the project originator for legal education and leadership development.
Her chief objectives are to strengthen those in need, deal with societal problems, Encouraging family volunteering and engaging youths to promote peace through awareness, action, and counselling. In order to uplift and empower them, children and women, senior citizens have been her primary target populations up to this point. With her team members she has been able to reached out to more than six hundred school-going children , empowered more than fifty womens to get engaged in the volunteering programs. According to her, she wants to demonstrate her leadership and ownership towards her community and individuals.
Phone number: +256 702 178200
Email Address: muntujalia27@gmail.com
Jalia is a project leader Global Peace Women International-Uganda and a Coordinator, team leader in the Sunshine Family Volunteers an initiative of GPW. She holds a bachelor’s Degree in Arts and Arts and a post Graduate Diploma in Education from Makerere University. She is the director of the project “Enhancing HIV/AIDS Information and Education uptake among the selected Youth Between the Ages of 14-18 in 2 selected secondary schools in Nyamitanga Division-Mbarara City-Uganda.
Jalia believes in the strength of a woman and how important they are in promoting peace in the homes, society and worldwide. She also takes volunteering as something very vital and that’s why she is doing so with SFV. She has engaged more than 50 girls and 20 boys in my projects with GPW where Economic skills, social skills, among others, have been trained and hope to engage more in upcoming projects.
Phone number: +2348088729333
Email Address: munirat.jibrin@yahoo.com
Muniratu is a visionary leader and a humanitarian who is based in Nigeria. She is a graduate of Global Peace Women Leadership Academy GPWLA and a 3-time Grant Awardee with Global Peace Women where she implemented projects to promote Family Values, foster Peace and Economic Independence among vulnerable women in North Eastern Nigeria. Muniratu is a graduate of Gender Based Violence in Emergency Course Cohort-7 organized by UNFPA in collaboration with American University of Nigeria and the government of Switzerland. She was born in Zaria and had her secondary and primary school also in Zaria, she had her degree in Ahmadu Bello University Zaria-kaduna state Nigeria. She is known for her passion for helping the less privileged.
She started an NGO called Mujib Hope Foundation. “MUJIB” in Arabic means “helping hands” and has over 5 years of experience working in the humanitarian and developmental sector on several projects. Her skills are top-notch for the 21st century and she is ready to network and open to opportunities.
Phone number: +880 1775-000749
Email Address: tahmina.supti@globalpeacewomen.org
Tahmina is a SFV Team Leader for Asia. She is Founder of the project Light For Life and has been included in the Top 100 Young Talents in Asia list in 2022. She was awarded as the best SFV Coordinator, 2022 and FVP silver award in 2021.She is an undergraduate student of law Department. She has developed and implemented her pilot project titled "Light For Life": initiative on improving education with skill development and awareness for unprivileged kids and youths in Gazipur city, Bangladesh. She is also working on Family Volunteering initiative for the first time in Bangladesh and create a SFV club. She is also working for climate change.
She wants to make a sustainable positive change in her society through quality education and awareness. She has also been engaging in many service projects since the age of 17 and she has reached more than three thousand beneficiaries through various programs. She is Net Mission Ambassador 2022 and also an FB climate advocate ambassador from Bangladesh. She believes in a peaceful world as one family under God.
Phone number: +234 803 202 4120
Email Address: aisha.yakubu@globalpeacewomen.org
Aisha is enthusiastic about Community Development and positive Social Impact. She has over a decade experience working in the areas of Education, Child protection, Peace building, Women and youth empowerment.
Aisha is a 2020 Alumni of GPWLA, this was her first contact with GPW and the beginning of many progressive engagements.
he has served as a volunteer, an Intern and now the Project Leader for Nigeria and also the SFV Leander for Nigeria. Aisha Has embarked on quite a number of service projects as a GWD grantee, Such as:
Phone number: +254713309145
Email Address: evaobondo@yahoo.com
Everline is the Founding Director of the Generation Concern Foundation ,a grassroot community service organization based in Kenya. She works to uplift and empower Women and a Girls in rural areas of the country. In 2007,during the post election violence, she was internally displaced from her home. She was prompted to champion for peaceful coexistence, a path she has walked since. She has worked and volunteered in various capacities as a Peace, Cohesion and integration advocate . She was voted the best Global Peace Foundation Kenya Ambassador, representing her County of Homabay, 2021 Cohort. She is also a member of Creators of Peace Network. As an environmental conservation enthusiast, she also volunteers as a Tree Planting Ambassador.
She holds a Diploma in Community Development from Kenya Institute of Social Work and Community Development. She also holds a certificate on qualities and strategies of a peacemaker after training with the Initiatives of Change UK