Here are some stories of people whose lives have been impacted by their encounter with Initiatives of Change. If you would like to share your story, please email us.
As a young man during World War 2, Leif Hovelsen fought in the Norwegian resistance. He was captured by the Gestapo and sentenced to death in a concentration camp, but a series of unexpected delays to his execution meant that he survived. An encounter with God while in prison led Leif to forgive his captors and after the war he worked in Germany sharing his experiences of suffering and forgiveness and working to rebuild relationships and trust. 29 July 2007
1.3 million people worldwide do not access to safe drinking water, according to the UN. Joseph Karanja starts each day with a time of searching for direction in silence. He tells how this led to finding spring water on his land, which will soon be marketed nationwide. 03 April 2007
was in the French Resistance during World War II. She wanted every German dead and their country 'wiped off the map of Europe'. But only a few years later German and French leaders said that she did more than any other individual to reconcile their countries after hundreds of years of enmity. 03 April 2007
was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and migrated to Australia when she was eight years old. As a teenager she remembers thinking to herself, 'When I grow up I want to help people.' But how was she meant to do that? She searched for that answer for many years. 03 April 2007
The Founder President of the International Communications Forum tells how he found the inspiration for this struggle for ethics in the media 05 September 2005
was distraught when told that that his daughter, Masha, had a brain or spinal trauma and may never walk again. His thoughts went from suing the doctor to getting on with having a second baby but his overwhelming feeling was not to trust anyone. 03 April 2003
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