The International Friendship League was founded in 1931 in the belief that the most effective way to increase international understanding is the development of personal friendships between individuals of different countries. In 1931, 30 students from Berlin University in Germany spent a holiday with British students at the home of Noel Ede at Peace haven in Sussex, England. Noel Ede (the brother o
f a noted British politician) had seen the terrible effects of war from 1914 to 1918 and was determined to act to prevent another war in Europe. On 26 September 1931, with three friends, Noel Ede inaugurated the IFL. Since 1931 IFL continued to grow tremendously around the world. There are IFL groups in Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Senegal, the Seychelles, Sweden, Togo, Uganda and in August 2009, Eric Kayiwa and other 4 members had their first meeting in order to start a group in Kenya, In June 2010, during the International Assembly held in Passau Germany; our group was given a partial recognition. (Embu, Eastern Kenya IFL Group)
IFL members continue to provide assistance internationally - in 1992 two "convoys" of relief supplies were sent to Croatia by the Oberpfalz Group in Germany, the first of many such shipments to the countries of the former Yugoslavia. As a group in Kenya we want to continue in that spirit humanitarianism
