Candles promote world peace, end to poverty, and child health
Written by Michael Vass
Sometimes I just wish you can hear more positive news in the media. And in this case the news involved a world record and a symbolism of peace and purity in the world. And nothing says that more than a candle.
In fact not just one candle but 66,840 candles which represented the 6.684 billion people in the world today. And another 195 candles with different colors to represent the countries of the world today. This huge number of candles were all lit by His Holiness Sri Vasanth Gurudevji.
I am not familiar with him, but I take it that he is a very prominent religious figure for some. He is also well know for his gestures to promote the concept of world peace. It seems that he currently hold four Guinness World Records, two Limca Book of Records and several awards all related to his efforts to promote world peace. And I have to applaud that effort.
The 66,840 candles were part of the 10 day festival (from September 30 to October 9) that is the Millennium Development Goal and World Peace Festival 2008. This is to highlight the promises made by world leaders in the U.N in 2000.
The promises made on behalf of the people of the world in 200 were:
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to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; to achieve universal primary education
to promote gender equality and empower women
to reduce child mortality
to improve maternal health
to combat HIV and AIDS
to combat malaria and other diseases; to ensure environmental sustainability
to develop a global partnership for development
So I can only hope that some news media in England was capable of videotaping this event, or perhaps one of you my readers. If you do have a picture of all these candles lit, I would love to see it. I imagine that they looked as beautiful as the world leaders actually living up to their promises and removing poverty, hunger, AIDS, lowering childhood deaths and the other goals.
