Spring Peace Festival

March-May 2019 Jashn-e-Baharan (Spring peace Festival)

Multan being the richest cultural city in Punjab celebrates a number of festivals throughout the year. In spring season Jashn-e-Baharan consists of traditional different activities which create an environment of peace and harmony. In year 2019 H-WRAP (Human Health Welfare and Research Association) in collaboration with District Govt Multan organized “Spring Peace Festival” to sensitize and aware the masses about the importance of culture and traditional values, promotion of peace through cultural activities and to build synergies and coordination among CSOs and district Government institutions for the promotion of peace building. Following activities and social action projects were designed to engage people from diverse backgrounds and to increase acceptance of diverse backgrounds in targeted communities.

A. Three orientation sessions were conducted with fine arts students & teachers, Chairman, Secretaries & Local Govt. representatives and poets & artists to orient them about the Counter violent extremism and the AeP initiatives to promote the peace and social harmony.
B. Three colorful Floats were designed & decorated with banners and Peace messages. Wall painting competition among the university students was organized at Qaswar Gardaizi road to promote peace and to deliver the message of CVE, Acceptance, interfaith harmony and tolerance
C. One Mega poetry event was conducted at Multan Tea House. The purpose of this event was to highlight the importance of peace through poetry and sensitizing people through poetry for peace and replicate of peace message promotion.
D. During Spring Peace Festival Musical performances were arranged during the 3 days of the event. Local singers and AeP Youth groups established under different university grants performed each day.
E. A Kabadi Match was organized under Spring Peace Festival in Sports Stadium Multan. The purpose of the activity was to bring community together in a common place to promote peace and harmony.
F. Several stalls were established by District Govt. during Spring Peace Festival. Moreover 10 AeP NGOs established their stalls to showcase their work on Peace, Tolerance, CVE and Safe Charity.
G. At the closing of activities of Spring Peace festival a debrief session was conducted with district administration to carry out the Social Action Project. Session Chaired by ADC Mr. Agha Zaheer Abbas Sherazi, local Govt. representative also participated in the session. The purpose of the session was to design 7 Social Action Projects (SAP) with the consultation of ADC to promote a culture of peace and acceptance in the local communities through Social action project.
H. Three Social Action projects were implemented in CRA Universities and 4 Social Action projects were conducted in 4 CRA Union Councils. Overall H-WRAP achieved 100 % of planned activities as per milestone chart in due course of time