Design 21: Social Design Network

artist ; Medi Belortaja Albania

An elderly Afghan man at an International Red Cross distribution camp in Mazar-i-Sharif, where food was being provided by the UN World Food Programme. Credit: UN Photo/Luke Powell http://www.un.org/events/humanrights/2008/posters.shtml

In the last decade, more than 700 humanitarian workers have made the ultimate sacrifice while striving to help those most in need in some of the world’s most hostile environments. Thousands more have endured bombing, kidnapping, attacks, hijacking, robbery and rape.

To honor all humanitarians and increase public understanding of humanitarian assistance activities worldwide, the United Nations General Assembly has chosen to dedicate 19 August to commemorate World Humanitarian Day.

The date is highly symbolic. On 19 August 2003, a truck packed with a ton of explosives deliberately drove into the United Nations office in Iraq, killing 22 people. Among them was Sergio Vieira de Mello, then the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Under-Secretary-General of OCHA from 1998 to 2001 and longtime humanitarian.

This commemoration also takes place at a time when humanitarian workers are increasingly targeted by extremists and armed groups and when humanitarian needs are on the rise.

According to FAO, world hunger is projected to reach a historic high in 2009, with just over a billion people going hungry every day. Tens of millions of people around the world have been forcibly displaced, both within their own countries and across international borders. This number is expected to rise still further in the coming years, at least in part due to the consequences of climate change.

In 2008 more than 9 million children died before their fifth birthday, most of them succumbing t...

ستاره ها رو از شب نترسون

به تو زندگي داده شده

تا خلق كني لذت ببري

و جشن بگيري

وقتي هزاران هزار نفر از مردم روي زمين جشن مي گيرند ، آواز مي خوانند ، مي رقصند ، با نور الهي مست شور و شعف مي شوند ، ديگر كمترين امكان خودكشي جهاني وجود نخواهد داشت . با چنان جشني و با چنان خنده اي ، با چنان صحت و سلامتي ، با چنان حالت طبيعي و خودجوشي ، چگونه ممكن است جنگي وجود داشته باشد ؟

به تو زندگي داده شده تا خلق كني ، لذت ببري ، و جشن بگيري.

وقتي گريه و زاري مي كني ، وقتي بيچاره و بي نوايي ، تنها هستي .

وقتي جشن مي گيري ، كل هستي با تو مشاركت مي كند . تنها در جشن است كه ما با غايت ابدي ملاقات مي كنيم . تنها در جشن است كه ما از دايره زندگي و مرگ فراتر مي رويم.

اشو ذن تاروت Osho Zen tarot

هستي

تو در جهان تصادفي نيستي.

هستي ، تو را كم خواهد داشت

هستي به تو نياز دارد .

بدون تو چيزي در جهان كم خواهد بود و هيچكس نمي تواند جاي آن را پر كند .

اين همان چيزي است كه به تو عزت و عظمت مي بخشد ، اينكه كل هستي ،

تو را كم خواهد داشت . ماه و خورشيد و ستارگان ، درختان ، زمين و پرندگان

– هر چيزي در كائنات حس خواهد كرد كه جايي خالي وجود دارد كه جز تو هيچكس

نمي تواند آن را پر كند . اين امر شادي عظيمي به تو مي بخشد ؛ اين احساس

سرور آميز كه تو به جهان وصل هستي ، و هستي مراقب توست .

وقتي كه پاك و روشن شوي ، شاهد عشق عظيمي خواهي بود كه از تمام جهان

بر تو فرو مي بارد .

اشو ذن تاروت Osho Zen tarot

open thislink you will like it http://www.pathways-to-peace.com/popframeset.html

"Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy – let us pray."

"I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: ‘My son did this to me.’ I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: ‘I forgive my son.’ Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand."

"When once a chairman of a multinational company came to see me, to offer me a property in Bombay, he first asked: ‘Mother, how do you manage your budget?" I asked him who had sent him here. He replied: ‘I felt an urge inside me.’ I said: other people like you come to see me and say the same. It was clear God sent you, Mr. A, as He sends Mr. X, Mrs. Y, Miss Z, and they provide the material means we need for our work. The grace of God is what moved you. You are my budget. God sees to our needs, as Jesus promised. I accepted the property he gave and named it Asha Dan (Gift of Hope).

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

"Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of th...

I have always believed that the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference.

The opposite of life is not death, but indifference.

The opposite of peace is not war, but indifference to peace and indifference to war.

The opposite of culture, the opposite of beauty, the opposite of generosity is indifference.

Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Laureate

you can creat peace yourself,atleast in your mind..