World Understanding and Peace Day
World Understanding and Peace Day is a time dedicated to fostering the connection between peace for individuals, cultures, and nations all around the world.
Promoting goodwill and understanding factors that lead to peace, the purpose behind this day is to encourage activities and actions that serve, develop and grow peace throughout neighborhoods and the globe!
How to Celebrate World Understanding and Peace Day
Looking for ideas to get involved with World Understanding and Peace Day? There a tons of ways to be creative and participate, starting out with a few of these:
Join a Rotary Club
With more than 46,000 clubs to choose from, joining Rotary International is likely to be an easy first step!
The clubs welcome anyone who is interested in giving back to their community through service projects, training opportunities, good citizenship, leader development and so much more.
Participate in a Service Project
One of the best ways to celebrate World Understanding and Peace Day, whether on your own or as part of a club, is to get involved with some projects that meet needs in the local community.
From volunteering to tutor young students to gathering supplies for disaster relief, from raising funds for college scholarships to installing playground equipment for local children, there are dozens of ways to work together with neighbors and other community members to make the world a better place in honor of World Understanding and Peace Day.
Learn About Understanding and Peace
Get more involved with the theoretical and philosophical aspects of World Understanding and Peace Day by connecting with others who are pursuing similar goals.
This might be accomplished by reading a book, taking a class offered through a local university, or volunteering with an organization that promotes peaceful action through understanding in areas such as racial reconciliation or cultural outlooks.
Community leaders and business professionals might want to take a course to build their skills through peacebuilding, conflict resolution, social justice activities and more.
History of World Understanding and Peace Day
This event was established to mark the anniversary of the Rotary International, a non-profit organization made up of people who are dedicated to taking action and promoting change for the good.
The humanitarian organization that would go on to become Rotary International was founded in 1905 through the efforts of an Illinois attorney, Paul Harris, along with a few friends.
Their gathering was founded along the theme of “fellowship and friendship” and very soon their purpose became to take on service projects that would meet the needs of the people in their city and their world.
World Understanding and Peace Day continues along this theme of fellowship and friendship, recognizing that these aspects of relationship lead to understanding – which ultimately works to foster peace.
Today, Rotary International clubs on all sorts of service projects in the 200 countries where their more than 1.4 million members are located. This day is one that is meant to bring these volunteers together with one purpose and heart.
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