Between humanitarian aid volunteers and collaborators of the Fraternity – International Humanitarian Missions (FIHM), 34 people participated in the training on Learn to Live Together – Ethics Education for Children, which took place on August 14, in Fatima, Portugal.
Administered by Vera Leal, coordinator of the organization Arigatou International, the training addressed the Learn to Live Together Program, which is partnered by UNESCO and UNICEF.
“Learn to Live Together – Ethics Education for Children” deals with questions such as how to prevent violence in schools and communities, racism, discrimination or exclusion, and teaches children and young people to work collaboratively with others. It uses an innovative approach for the intercultural lesson and promotes a quality education based on values for children and young people all over the world, within the framework of the right of a child to an education, conforming with the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The humanitarian aid volunteer, Anderson Santiago, of the Fraternity – Humanitarian Missions (FIHM) highlighted the importance of this training for all participants, keeping in mind the role played by Arigatou International in the sphere of building peace, solutions through dialogue, and ethical family and social life in the various regions of the world, this role being, emphasized Anderson “very similar to the work already being developed by the Tibetan Park Schools in the Light-Communities, affiliated with the Humanitarian Fraternity (FIHF)”.
According to Anderson, this training will be an opportunity for the Fraternity – Humanitarian Missions (FIHM) and Arigatou International to be able to develop projects common to the area of education in humanitarianresponses in the different planetary regions where the Fraternity – Humanitarian Missions (FIHM) is active.
Learn to Live Together
The program, translated into 13 languages, has already trained more than 5,000 facilitators and 52 trainers in 40 countries, reaching more than 453,000 children and young people, who learn precepts on how to live in solidarity with people of different religions, cultures and ethnicities. These children and young people are empowered to make ethical decisions, nurture their spirituality and develop the innate capacity to make positive contributions to transform their communities, based on values that promote respect for their own culture and beliefs and for those of others.
About Arigatou international
It’s a non-profit organization that strives to gather together people from all areas of life so that, together, they build a better world for the children. Arigatou International is “All for the Children”, and is based on universal principles of the common good so as to offer new ways that are attractive to people of diverse religious and cultural backgrounds in working together on issues concerning children.
It was founded in 1990 by the Japanese Buddhist organization Myochikai, the members of which will continue to support the work with donations. The name “Arigatou” means “thank you” in Japanese, and expresses the spirit of the Myochikai members, who are grateful for having the opportunity to support children all over the world with their donations. The organization has its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, with offices in Geneva, Switzerland; New York, USA; and Nairobi, Kenya.
