Global Family Day - One Day of Peace and Sharing..

Global Family Day - January 1

Global Family Day, (One Day of Peace and Sharing) is celebrated every January 1 in the United States and around the world as a global day of peace and sharing.

It is a day where individual persona and families share food with friends (Especially the needy), make personal pledges of non - violence, and spread a message of peace and sharing by ringing bells or /  beating a drum in hopes of making society & the world a safer place to live.

Global Family Day grew out of the United Nations Millennium celebration,  - One Day of Peace.

Originally supported in the United States by Mr. Eric Lee Brown and Mr. Linda Grover, the original idea itself is difficult to pin down because many grassroots efforts around the world had independently sprung up to target this date as a day for peace and had worked separately to prevail on local governments and the U.N. to establish such a day.

As a result, about 140 nations were poised to respond to the November 1997 declaration of the U.N. General Assembly that the first year of the new millennium should launch an "International Decade for the Culture of Peace & Nonviolence for the Children of the World" which would be ushered in by - One Day of Peace.

Finally, in November 1999, the U.N. issued a formal invitation for world participation. As the independent grassroots organizations around the world joined the effort, one notable outcome was a special ceremony between Israeli & Palestinian families, at a refugee camp in Nablus.

Global Family Day is celebrated each year on 1st January. But, since it is something that evolved almost spontaneously, it is hard to pin down its actual origins.

Traditionally 1st January has always been regarded as a day of new beginnings. New Year Resolutions have customarily been made that generally involve some effort to modify behaviour & lead a better life.

Cutting down on the consumption of chocolate or /  alcohol / sweet, giving up smoking or / taking more exercise are popular, although not always lasting, intentions.

On a broader note, it has also traditionally come to be a day to consider ways of promoting peace, both within local communities & in the wider world.

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