Great Lakes Agency for Peace and Development International – GLAPD Int. Ltd., pronounced ‘glah-ped’, was established on August 15, 2011 by members of the Congolese, Rwandan, Burundian and Ugandan communities in NSW, Australia. The purpose was to establish an organisation that could bring together all refugees and migrants from the Great Lakes of Africa living in Australia and abroad. The vision is to build peace and development and make a positive impact on those who have been through tough situations and who are living in insecurity, fear and trauma. All the paper work was done and the organisation was registered by ASIC on 25 January 2012. GLAPD is an international humanitarian non-profit, non-religious and non-political agency which was formed to contribute to peace and development amongst the people of Africa’s Great Lakes region, at the local, regional and international level. We work in partnership to create positive change.