The 40 Days of Peace provides opportunities for people and organizations to promote greater cooperation and sustainable peaceful relations. It is time to bring to the forefront of a community respectful and kind behavior. It is an opportunity to look at systemic issues that hurt the vulnerable in our community and beyond.
This movement of nonviolence and reconciliation began after MLK’s 1968 assassination. It was to honour his legacy of nonviolence and social justice. It is a 40 Day campaign because that number for many cultures represents transformation and spiritual growth. The attention to a cause for 40 days can lead to transformation.
Please see the Charter for Compassion for further details.
There are many events to participating in.
Some are local.
Some are events and activities proposed by the Charter for Compassion.
Below are also lists of other resources - books and articles to read, movies and documentaries to watch ongoing activities to partake in during the 40 + Days of Peace than can help us on our journey to follow Martin Luther King's footsteps.
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This is an event organized by our Compassionate San Antionio partner, Alamo College as part of a Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation ...
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Mill Pond, Richmond Hill
This is a real community event run by volunteers. It is a celebration of community. it is a free event open to all.
Click HERE for more det...
Mill Pond, Richmond Hill
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There will be a a short overview of the history of Mosaic, a presentation on a current challenge; Food Insecurity, featuring our guest spe...
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Just show the love!
Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts 10268 Yonge Street
This is the story of Canada’s oldest black community, Africville, which was destroyed for ’urban improvement’ in the 1960s. Within the trag...
Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts 10268 Yonge Street
Go to a council meeting
Imagine for a moment what your life would be like if there was no light in your home after sunset. Relentless bombing of power plants and energy infrastructure has now left untold numbers of families in Ukraine without heat or light in their homes. With winter fast approaching, many Ukrainians are now facing a fearful winter of darkness and cold. And without power to recharge cell phones, even normal contact with families and friends will be far more difficult if not impossible.
Compassionate York Region, a part of The Charter for Compassion, believes we may like to make this thoughtful and compassionate gift to those suffering in the war in Ukraine.
The Charter for Compassion has organized that through SunLight Ukraine to ship these simple solar powered lanterns to families in Ukraine. These inflatable lanterns can stay lit all night with a solar recharge, and they also have a plug that can be used to charge a cellphone. Your gift will bring these simple solar lanterns to families there, and with it the life changing gifts of light and human connection. Children can now read and do homework; families can now see each other around a dinner table; and parents can now read to their children at bedtime, and even provide a night light for them as they sleep.
The delivered cost of each unit is $25US (approximately $34 Canadian)
Click HERE to access The Charter for Compassion's donation link. You can donate an amount for a specific number of lanterns or make a general donation to this cause of sending these solar lights to Ukraine.
The bench is located in front of the Richmond Hill Centre for Performing Arts - 10268 Yonge Street
The Region of York, the United Way of Greater Toronto and Canadian Mental Health Association thinks we have a good idea!!!
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MAP YOUR PASSION
The Charter for Compassion offers this opportunity to become visible to other compassionate people from anywhere in the world.
And there is such a great need for everybody’s engagement.
The Charter for Compassion’ is “a connector”, creating this CO CREATOR MAP.
You indicate what your areas of interest are, and you can see who else shares these interests.
Please be assured that the information you share is safe and will not be shared.
Appearing as a co-creator on this Map is an invitation to participate in perhaps the greatest adventure of all time … co-creating the world that all our hearts desire … participation in an evolution towards a more just and equitable world.
A co-creator is humble and open-minded, curious to understand and integrate others’ perspectives, and is motivated by a higher purpose, i.e.:
If this aligns with you, please register on the Map of Co-creators.
If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to the Compassionate York Region team at compassionateyr@gmail.com
When we see a Compassionate Path as a whole, it is amazing what Compassionate York Region sparked and what our Compassionate Community has already done
Councillor Raika Sheppard has put forth the motion for "the City of Richmond Hill hereby affirms the tenants of the Charter for Compassion and commits to restoring compassion in our society, and hereby formalizes its commitment to encouraging our City’s diversity and cultivating an informed empathy of others.
And the City of Richmond Hill hereby commits to the rejection of any practice that breeds hatred, violence, intolerance and disdain, on basis of one’s creed, race, gender or sexuality, national origin, religion, culture, colour, or constitution. "
Click HERE for the full motion
We'll report back on the council's decision
Sara Jamil spoke as a delegate. Click HERE to listen what she had to say.
The Richmond Hill Liberal editor, Sheila Wang, wrote about this motion passing and Councillor Sheppard's desire to have more compassion. ‘Treating each other better’: Richmond Hill commits to restoring compassion and rejecting hatred (yorkregion.com)
"Love, kindness and friendliness may be ways of being compassionate, but they are not compassion itself.
At the heart of compassion is the courage to look into the causes of suffering – in particular our dark side – with a dedication to acquire the wisdom of understanding the causes and roads to the alleviation and prevention of suffering with the determination to take action."
from How Compassion Can Transform Our Politics, Economy and Society
An amazing group of ladies are putting their hearts and souls together .
The Compassionate Community Initiative of York Region is weaving compassion into the social fabric of the community.
It foresees (4C) Creating Conversations for a Compassionate Community that invites voices across all sectors.
To build a compassionate community .
We are part of The Charter for Compassion, an international movement to promote and cultivate the principle of compassion and the Compassionate Way of Life, as articulated by the Charter for Compassion, so that compassion characterizes all human society and all relationships.
We respectfully acknowledge our presence on the traditional territories and ancestral lands and waters of the original stewards: the Huron Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples.
York Region is a colonial boundary that is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississauga’s of the Credit, and the Williams Treaty signed with many Mississauga and Chippewa Bands.
As settlers we are uninvited guests. And we are all treaty people bound by the responsibility to honour and heal our relations with each other.
This acknowledgement is one step to reconciliation, as has been outlined in the Truth and Reconciliation Report Calls to Action.
An understanding of how our collective past has brought us to where we are today will help us walk together into a better future.
We pray that our Beloved Creator will help us recognize our common humanity, interconnection, and interdependence.
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