(Photo: Maria Grace)The Hope in the Cities team helped facilitate an international Tools for Change conference August 9-15, in Caux,Switzerland. Sixty-five young Muslims from the UK, France, Sweden, Netherlands, and Germany were among the 380 participants from 50 countries.

A faculty drawn from 13 countries delivered skills building courses designed to increase capacity for bringing about effective change in communities.

(Cricket White, left, and Hind Makki right, with Imam Ajmal Masroor. Photo: Esmat Hassan)Cricket White, Hope in the Cities training director, facilitated a course on “honest conversation” with Hind Makki of Interfaith Youth Core. HIC national director Rob Corcoran and Richmond HIC co-chair Anjum Ali led a course on "building and maintaining diverse teams." Read the 2009 Conference  Highlights