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Support our Global Walk for Peace (Jai Jagat - Unity for the World) 2020!
WHO YOU WILL HELP
In 2013, I went to India with my friend, Jill Carr-Harris, to witness the work that her organization, Ekta Parishad does with disadvantaged people across India like Mallika. Mallika is a young tribal woman in the forested hills of Tamil Nadu. As a girl, she was attacked by her neighbor, who broke her father's arm and forced her family to flee from village to village to escape. With the help of Ekta Parisha, she overcame poverty, threats and even the opposition of corrupt policemen and is now one of the foremost leaders for the disadvantaged in Tamil Nadu.
WHO IS EKTA PARISHAD
For over 20 years, Ekta Parishad, led by PV Rajagopal, with thousands of colleagues, supporters, and volunteers both internationally and in India have built Ekta Parishad (Unity Forum) into an organization with unparalleled success and experience in training people in the nonviolent strategies and techniques of Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr and Nelson Mandela. Ekta Parishad has organizing many successful events, most notably its well-known nonviolent actions, mass marches such as the 300 km Jan Satyagraha (or peace walk) in 2012 when 100.000 landless and small farmers marched to the Indian capital, New Delhi to lobby for land rights.
WHY WE NEED YOUR HELP
I saw first-hand how with the help of Ekta Parishad, young people and women like Mallika were working to overcome violence in their families, in school and in their communities. Now, YOU too can support women like Mallika to build more stable, peaceful lives for themselves and their communities by supporting the work of Ekta Parishad and their Global Walk for Peace.
It is clear from decades of research and work in such places as Liberia, Rwanda or even Iceland, that empowering young people and women like Mallika is essential for lasting peace, growing economies, improving public health and sustaining our environment.
It is for Mallika and thousands of other people just like her that we are organizing a global march for peace and social and ecological justice from Dehli, India to Geneva, Switzerland.
HOW WE WILL HELP - GLOBAL WALK FOR PEACE - JAI JAGAT 2020
On the very day of Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th anniversary, October 2, 2019, and from the very place where he is buried, Ekta Parishad will launch Jai Jagat 2020 and this grassroots nonviolent movement will land on the global stage. Jai Jagat comes from two simple Hindi words: Jai means "hail!" or "victory to" and Jagat means "the whole world” in the sense of "everyone (all living beings) together". Jai Jagat carries the sense of "victory to the whole world where everyone lives together".
Rajagopal and his partner Jill Car-Harris, will leave Gandhi's grave together with thousands of marchers on the first leg of a 10.000 km, one year long march to Geneva, Switzerland. They need your help to achieve this amazing goal.
ACTION PLANS
The Long March: October 2nd 2019 to October 2nd, 2020
The 10.000 km long march begins on the symbolic date of October 2, 2019, the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's birth, at his grave at Raghad in New Delhi, and proceeds across 16 countries to Geneva, Switzerland.
In India, thousands of people will march to the Pakistan border, and in certain countries along the route hundreds will march, but the core of the march will be modest and symbolic due to the context in some countries. The primary concern is for the safety and security of the marchers.
All along the 10.000 km route local committees will seize on this contagious passion to animate local or global issues which are important to them. For this entire year, Ekta Parishad will organize a nonviolence training session. We will be spreading Gandhi’s teachings of social justice and peaceful co-existence with each other and the natural environment.
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO HELP SPREAD PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
For detailed routes and cost involved please visit www.jaijagat2020.org or email us at: [email redacted]
EKTA PARISHAD CONTACT:
Jill Carr-Harris, Ph.D Candidate, University of Toronto
WHO YOU WILL HELP
In 2013, I went to India with my friend, Jill Carr-Harris, to witness the work that her organization, Ekta Parishad does with disadvantaged people across India like Mallika. Mallika is a young tribal woman in the forested hills of Tamil Nadu. As a girl, she was attacked by her neighbor, who broke her father's arm and forced her family to flee from village to village to escape. With the help of Ekta Parisha, she overcame poverty, threats and even the opposition of corrupt policemen and is now one of the foremost leaders for the disadvantaged in Tamil Nadu.
WHO IS EKTA PARISHAD
For over 20 years, Ekta Parishad, led by PV Rajagopal, with thousands of colleagues, supporters, and volunteers both internationally and in India have built Ekta Parishad (Unity Forum) into an organization with unparalleled success and experience in training people in the nonviolent strategies and techniques of Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr and Nelson Mandela. Ekta Parishad has organizing many successful events, most notably its well-known nonviolent actions, mass marches such as the 300 km Jan Satyagraha (or peace walk) in 2012 when 100.000 landless and small farmers marched to the Indian capital, New Delhi to lobby for land rights.
WHY WE NEED YOUR HELP
I saw first-hand how with the help of Ekta Parishad, young people and women like Mallika were working to overcome violence in their families, in school and in their communities. Now, YOU too can support women like Mallika to build more stable, peaceful lives for themselves and their communities by supporting the work of Ekta Parishad and their Global Walk for Peace.
It is clear from decades of research and work in such places as Liberia, Rwanda or even Iceland, that empowering young people and women like Mallika is essential for lasting peace, growing economies, improving public health and sustaining our environment.
It is for Mallika and thousands of other people just like her that we are organizing a global march for peace and social and ecological justice from Dehli, India to Geneva, Switzerland.
HOW WE WILL HELP - GLOBAL WALK FOR PEACE - JAI JAGAT 2020
On the very day of Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th anniversary, October 2, 2019, and from the very place where he is buried, Ekta Parishad will launch Jai Jagat 2020 and this grassroots nonviolent movement will land on the global stage. Jai Jagat comes from two simple Hindi words: Jai means "hail!" or "victory to" and Jagat means "the whole world” in the sense of "everyone (all living beings) together". Jai Jagat carries the sense of "victory to the whole world where everyone lives together".
Rajagopal and his partner Jill Car-Harris, will leave Gandhi's grave together with thousands of marchers on the first leg of a 10.000 km, one year long march to Geneva, Switzerland. They need your help to achieve this amazing goal.
ACTION PLANS
The Long March: October 2nd 2019 to October 2nd, 2020
The 10.000 km long march begins on the symbolic date of October 2, 2019, the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's birth, at his grave at Raghad in New Delhi, and proceeds across 16 countries to Geneva, Switzerland.
In India, thousands of people will march to the Pakistan border, and in certain countries along the route hundreds will march, but the core of the march will be modest and symbolic due to the context in some countries. The primary concern is for the safety and security of the marchers.
All along the 10.000 km route local committees will seize on this contagious passion to animate local or global issues which are important to them. For this entire year, Ekta Parishad will organize a nonviolence training session. We will be spreading Gandhi’s teachings of social justice and peaceful co-existence with each other and the natural environment.
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO HELP SPREAD PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
For detailed routes and cost involved please visit www.jaijagat2020.org or email us at: [email redacted]
EKTA PARISHAD CONTACT:
Jill Carr-Harris, Ph.D Candidate, University of Toronto