Community members gathered together in a dialogue and storytelling setting

Projects & Partnerships

Projects

These projects reflect how Progress In Peace works in practice — through youth voice, local participation, community care, and partnerships that make space for dignity, expression, and shared responsibility.

100camera Tearfund

Impact Snapshot

Work that reaches beyond one moment

Behind every image, workshop, and neighbourhood activity is a wider story of people reached, spaces created, and local trust built over time.

12 Communities Reached
4,800 People Supported
160 Workshops Held
35 Partner Organisations

100camera

Photography, expression, and youth voice

This project brings together several 100camera workshops and exhibitions into one story — showing how photography became a tool for youth voice, memory, self-expression, and public visibility across different places and moments.

100camera 2023–2025 Khanke, Mosul, Nineveh, New York

Youth storytelling through photography, memory, and perspective

100camera brought together young people from different communities and gave them something simple but powerful: a camera, a safe space, and the chance to tell their own stories.

Across workshops in Khanke, Mosul, and Nineveh, participants used photography to document daily life, identity, memory, and the places that shape them. The project was not only about learning a visual skill. It was about helping young people express what is often hard to say directly, and turning ordinary scenes into honest personal narratives.

What makes this work meaningful is the voice behind each image. Every photo reflects a way of seeing, remembering, and being present in the world. Together, the images show how creativity can become a tool for confidence, healing, and human connection.

The journey of this project eventually reached beyond the workshop setting itself, with youth-created work later presented internationally at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. That moment showed how local stories can travel far when young people are trusted to represent their own lives.

Participant perspective from the 100camera workshop
100camera gave young people space to tell their stories through images, memory, and everyday life.

Tearfund

Community action in Bashiqa

This partnership brings together several community actions in Bashiqa into one clearer picture — showing how practical improvements and local training can support dignity, safety, participation, and stronger community life.

Tearfund Bashiqa 2023

Community action that strengthens care, safety, and local opportunity

In partnership with Tearfund, this work in Bashiqa focused on practical local action that could improve daily life while also strengthening community connection and shared responsibility.

The project included environmental activities, public-space improvement, street lighting, and training connected to small business development. Each part responded to a real local need, but together they also carried a deeper purpose: helping communities feel more cared for, more connected, and more able to imagine positive change.

Planting and neighbourhood improvement supported dignity and belonging in public space. Street lighting increased safety and made everyday movement easier, especially at night. Training sessions created room for confidence, learning, and practical opportunity, especially for people seeking to build something sustainable for themselves and their families.

Taken together, these activities show that peacebuilding is not only dialogue in a room. It is also the visible, practical work of improving places, investing in people, and building a stronger sense of shared life in the community.

Environmental initiative materials prepared in Bashiqa
Tearfund supported practical community action in Bashiqa through environment, infrastructure, and training.

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