Globalfamily Day - Every  January 1st 

At the start of each new year, let's celebrate life on earth as one global family


Celebrating Globalfamily Day - One day of peace and sharing


Commemorating the successful "One Day in Peace January 1, 2000" (UN Res.54/29)

 

To Prepare for a Worldwide Day of Reconciliation on January 1 each year:

 
  • EASE HUNGER OF OTHERS Participants will first do all they can to see that fellow global family members have food for the new year - because, as a child recently pointed out, "Nobody can celebrate if they don't have anything to eat."
 
  • LEARN TOGETHER Schools will be furnished with lesson plans for September on the importance of holidays in our lives, October, on the logic of nonviolence, November, on the senselessness of hunger and December on the joy to be had in celebrating life on earth as one global family.
 
  • REACH OUT Families, faith groups and organizations will be asked to reach across cultural barriers and develop new ideas and new efforts at cooperation and understanding.
 

On January 1, Global Family Day, people of all nations will be invited to:

 
  • SHARE Exchange a greeting, a gift of food (or a recipe) with someone in another part of the world. (This will provide economic stimulus as well as increased good will.) First Families of all nations can lead in this effort.
 
  • GATHER Sit down to local meals (in homes, houses of worship and community centers) that will be symbolically linked as part of a single world-wide gathering of the global family to remember the past, enjoy the present (if possible) and resolve for a better future.
 
  • GIVE Match the monetary value of their Global Family Day meal with a specially-dedicated gift to the needy at home or abroad.
 
  • PROMISE Write personal pledges for the future to loved ones or to the global family at large and exchange small connecting stones from their own homeland that will link us to the Earth and to one another. Pledge to renew your promises on the first day of every month.
 
  • COLLABORATE Collectively review our achievements of the past year and plan goals to be achieved by the global family as a whole in the year to come.
 
  • CELEBRATE Join in special cultural activities: art, music, dance, indigenous children's drumming for peace, pyrotechnic displays with a theme of peace and sharing on New Years Eve and appropriate ceremonies during January 1st sporting events.