World Peace and Understanding Day 2022: World Peace and Understanding Day, celebrated on February 23, is also the birthday of the Rotary Club. With the motto to spread peace, the day is celebrated to remember that it is our world and that together we can make it a peaceful place to live. The name of the day means creating a common ground for the people of the world to empathize with and understand love and respect for each other to build better human connections. It aims at achieving goodwill, peace and understanding among all the people of the world.
Let’s discover the history, meaning and theme of World Peace and Understanding Day.
World Peace and Understanding Day 2022: theme
World Peace and Understanding Day has a motto that stands for “Service above Self”. The day is celebrated around the world with the thought of understanding between people and sharing life values to maintain peace and harmony. It is the responsibility of every individual to help create a world that serves peace and understanding among the people. If each of us works on ourselves, we can easily achieve this goal.
This year, the Rotary Club of Lagos will hold the World Peace and Understanding Day Symposium on the theme of ‘Promoting Peace Among Ethnic Nationalities in Nigeria’.
World Peace and Understanding Day: History
It started in the year 1905 and on February 23 when four friends Paul Harris, Gustaaf Loehr, Silvester Schiele and Hiram Shorey discuss their small-town life together. This became an official organization in the year 1922. They called themselves Rotary International organization or commonly known as Rotary Club.
World Peace and Understanding Day: Meaning
World Peace and Understanding Day spreads the message of sharing different values to maintain world peace. Values such as education, literacy, equality, cultural values, community development, poverty eradication, disease prevention and more are shared by the people of the world. It also promotes people becoming better people and working on themselves so that they contribute to world peace.
On this World Day of Peace and Understanding, let’s all pledge to be a better version of ourselves and keep peace for a better world.
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