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Global Dignity

Lotus Learning Foundation celebrated the first Global Dignity Day in India

Global Dignity

In 2006, three Young Global Leaders began a conversation at the World Economic Forum about how polarized the world felt.

John Hope Bryant, CEO and Founder of Operation HOPE, based in the United States, Pekka Himanen, author, professor and advisor to the former Finnish President, and Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, met for the first time at the World Economic Forum in 2006 and felt compelled to do something that would spread the values and principles behind this powerful concept of “dignity.”

During the World Economic Forum gathering, they wrote the Founding Principles for a new non-profit organization, Global Dignity. Muhammad Ali was the first person to sign on. Next, they found a school down the mountain in Switzerland and led the first immersive, storytelling-based workshop on dignity in just one classroom. Bishop Tutu left the Forum to join them in the school, and when Sir Richard Branson and musician Peter Gabriel saw Bishop Tutu leaving the conference, they joined too.

Global Dignity

And that is the story of how Global Dignity was founded. From that one classroom of students in 2006, we now work in over 70 countries. In 2017, over 680,000 young people and civil society leaders, volunteer facilitators, parents and teachers were engaged with Global Dignity workshops, forums and assemblies.

Lotus Learning Foundation celebrated the first Global Dignity Day in India on 12 th October, 2018. Prof. Dr. N. Radhakrishnan Chairman, Indian Council of Gandhian Studies gave a special lecture on Global Dignity. We had a panel discussion in which Ms. Nicole Huber, City Manager of Heidelberg (Germany), Dr. Johannes Paul Tröger Chief Evangelist, Ameria

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‘Dear children, teachers and school administration team, thank you very much for welcoming us with open arms. It has been a very long time since I have been in a classroom and school yard. To start the year 2019 with meeting you, smiling and feeling of happiness give me the courage to do more. Thank you! I hope that everyone's dream will become true and you all stay healthy! Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know. Stay open minded and greet everyone with a big smile..’

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