Testimonials

------------ AFTER THEIR WEEKEND ------------

Voici quelques témoignages de “Nouveaux guerriers” qui nous racontent ce que le week-end leur a apporté.

------------ RON HERING AWARD ------------

For over 20 years, the ManKind Project has been highlighting new warriors who are carrying out missions of service around the world.

Since 1998, the Ron Hering Award for Humanitarian Commitment has been presented annually to one ‘New Warrior’ from each region or area who has made an exceptional contribution to humanitarian missions around the world. Through their work, the award winners have had a positive impact on millions of people across all areas of human endeavour.

Here are some examples of the work undertaken by these award winners.

Passionate about non-violent communication and mediation, he taught these techniques at his school and, after retiring, in prisons in Senegal. In the spring of 2010, he spent three months in the West Bank with the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) to work towards peace.

For many years, he has been actively involved in supporting people struggling with addiction and those nearing the end of their lives, notably by running support groups for men in prison. He now runs emotional intelligence training courses for musicians and the general public.

He has been active within the AIDES association in France for over fifteen years, where he runs writing workshops for people living with HIV, coordinates wellbeing workshops to support their social reintegration and revitalisation, and serves on the editorial board of REMAIDES, the association’s journal. He is aware of the challenge posed by the risk of reinforcing a victim mentality in some men. MKP has helped him to recognise this difficulty and has provided him with the tools needed to promote autonomy and responsibility in a society that can quickly exclude certain people.

Since retiring, he has devoted himself to two charities driven by strong human values.
The first, Hôpi-Clown, organises clown performances in children’s hospitals. He then transforms himself into ‘Bill’, the clown with the red nose. Armed with his magic suitcase, his modelling balloons, his magic tricks, his stories and his songs, he visits the wards, bringing joy to sick children and their families.