April 2018 - Page 2 of 2 - A STEP TOWARDS PEACE

International Mine Awareness Day : Unexpected

International Mine Awareness Day in Mine Action

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated, “An unprecedented volume of landmines and unexploded weapons contaminates rural and urban war zones, maiming and killing innocent civilians long after conflict has ended. Mine action is vital.” To bring attention to this issue the General Assembly of the United Nations established the 4th of April as International Mine Awareness Day. It is estimated that approximately 110 million landmines still remain in the ground in various countries around the world.

“Advancing Protection, Peace and Development”

These landmines clearly show the lasting effects of war that continue to cause damage and loss of life even after the active conflicts have ceased. Articles 1 through 3 of the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War (DPCW) address the prohibition of acts of aggression and the banning of weapons of war. According to Article 2 Clause 3 of the DPCW “States should take measures to ensure that existing weapons of mass destruction, weapons capable of causing widespread and unnecessary suffering and weapons incompatible with international humanitarian law are gradually dismantled or destroyed.”

“The War is Over, but Where is the Peace?”

Peace is up to you :0 Good luck!

Quotes for Young Leaders of Nonprofit

Young Leaders of Nonprofit

“We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.”
– Sonia Johnson

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank

“Find a need and fill it.”
– Ruth Stafford Peale

Why not change the world

Can make a significant difference

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”
-Barack Obama

“If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”
-Barack Obama

“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein

“Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.”
– Ella Williams

Peace is up to you :0 Good luck!

Nonprofit Start-up is my dream

Beginning of Nonprofit Start-up

Traditionally the purpose of Startup companies is to earn profit. Is only start-up for profit? No. All companies want to make money. At present, however, none of the profit-companies reveal their purpose. At one point, they did not sell the product. They sell sensitivity, human, platform. Now people don’t easily buy products of commercial company. They don’t move easily. They are more easily moved by ‘Meaning‘. What will they get from buying this, and what will the company do with the money? So, many companies sell ‘meaning’, their mission, identity. But unlike them, here are companies whose mission is ” Everything.” There is ‘Nonprofit organization.’ My dream is Nonprofit Start-up into which the two are combined.

Nonprofit Start-up : Example ‘Watsi’

Nonprofit Start-up! Isn’t this word wonderful? I fell in love. Looking at me and my friends around me, the perception of NPO was not good. First of all, It’s not cool! In fact, it is fair to say that corporations are too cool. They invest a lot of money to recruit talent. So what do you think it’ll be now? All the talented people gather there! If so, should the nonprofit always be beaten by the profit? I don’t think so! Peter F. Drucker said Mission is the most important thing for NPO in his book, ‘Managing the Non-Profit Organization’. I also want to challenge myself. I try to learn many things. First, Nonprofit Start-up is already a known word in the world. Many people cite ‘Watsi‘ as an example. I should study more.

“The “non-profit” institution neither supplies goods or services nor controls. Its “product” is neither a pair of shoes nor an effective regulation. Its product is a changed human being. The non-profit institutions are human-change agents. Their “product” is a cured patient, a child that learns, a young man or woman grown into a self-respecting adult; a changed human life altogether.”
― Peter F. Drucker, Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices

Peace is up to you :0 Good luck!

Volunteer inspirational quotes

Volunteer is a heart

“Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve…. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.” — Muhammad Ali

“Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.” — Elizabeth Andrew

Volunteer inspirational quotes

“Only a life lived for others is worth living.” — Albert Einstein

“What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.” — Aristotle

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill

“The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.” — Helen Keller

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?” — Martin Luther King, Jr.