Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Wayanad celebrates Global Dignity Day

Report - Laila Saein ff India News
Wayanad: On 20 October 2011 The Young Leaders programme of Leadership Village with the active support of teachers and students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Wayanad celebrated Global Dignity Day, noble initiative of Young Global Leaders from World Economic Forum.

“The mission of Global Dignity is to implement the universal right of every human being to lead a dignified life. We all have the ability to increase the dignity of others and thus we increase our own dignity.

The dignity approach works on all levels: it works for children and for adults, it works for men and for women, and it works on the micro and macro level.
Global Dignity is an autonomous non-profit, non-criticism and non-partisan initiative. We wish to be inspiration-based: commending and encouraging best practice and dignity-centered leadership.”- from Global Dignity official site.

Headmistress of JNV Wayanad Ms.Shanthy inaugurated the event. In her talk with the students she stressed the need of developing social dignity among students and how important and essentials it is to identify the dignified real self-hidden deep within each one of us. External facilitators of the event were Laila Saein , Pooja YLP, RoshanYLP and Anil Emage. The facilitators shared Dignity Stories with the students.

A lively discussion unfurled which was led by the headmistress Ms.Shanthy and everyone joined her. Later Dignity Videos were shown. After this students were invited to the conference hall of the school where they shared Dignity stories with the help of facilitators. After that children formed a “Dignity Circle”, they cheered and pledged for Global Dignity day and in their own terms what Dignity meant to them.

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