Rise For Lives aims to encourage our international community to work together in a united, educated, and harmonious way for global peace. Through direct action and education on humanitarian affairs we aspire to create a peaceful world for our future generations. Our work: Rise For Lives has been fundraising in schools since our inception. Since then we’ve expanded to 10+ cities around Aotearoa and counting. In 2022 we’re resuming student outreach by organising school communities and clubs dedicated to justice and peace in alignment with our goals. With the support of Rise For Lives, students are enabled to host educational and fundraising events to aid humanitarian crises. Many of our own volunteers are paving the way and hosting events outside of their schools to help fundraise for the organizations we work with, including Save the Children NZ. In late 2020 and 2021 we organized and held school-wide fundraising drives in schools around New Zealand, where we raised thousands that went towards Save The Children. As a part of this initiative we held educational events at schools with speakers and other activities that helped educate young people about humanitarian crises. We had over 3000 young people directly participating both from primary and high schools across the country. In February 2021 we ran our first National Peace Walk for Yemen which over 10 cities from around New Zealand participated in. Cities included Hawkes Bay, Wellington, Auckland, Blenheim, Hamilton, Invercargill. Our peace walk was fully non-political and its purposes were to raise awareness about the Yemeni crisis and encourage our government to take more action to help restore peace in Yemen. In March of 2021, we were amplified by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Yemen where our successes in the coordination of 10+ national events were recognised.