The Red Elephant Foundation is a youth-led civilian peacebuilding initiative that works for gender equality and peace through storytelling, art advocacy, tech-for-good and digital media engagement.
[1] On 4 June 2017, The Red Elephant Foundation was recommended by Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, for Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council.
[2] The Red Elephant Foundation's activities are chunked down into five key blocks: In the long term, the initiative aims at shifting mindsets and pivot people naturally towards equality, peace and non-violence.
[4] The foundation has told stories of several activists, changemakers and survivors, including Maya Azucena,[5] Zak Ebrahim,[6] Kamla Bhasin,[7] Tabish Khair[8] and Vaishnavi Sundar[9] among others.
[1][10][11] The ChalkPeace Program has re-created versions of board games to teach values of Gender Equality and Peace, such as: Snakes and Ladders, Guess Who, Pictionary, Taboo and Memory.
[12] While the goals of storytelling and education/sensitization are couched in the long-term,[3] the initiative focuses on the imminent need for assistance, sensitized help and qualitative support for survivors of violence.
[20] The initiative runs digital media campaigns that serve a two-pronged strategy: online stakeholding and awareness, and offline dialogue building and exchange.