3. How We do
that is our
Mission
Creating a more peaceful
world though:
• being of service to others
promoting integrity advancing
understanding and good will
4. How that Shows Up
Building a water line for 767 children in a
remote Myanmar High School so they
don’t spend hours each day carrying water
to their school.
5. Peace Solutions
My role in WE Rotary envisions being a
messenger on what has worked
Focus on solutions bringing more Peace
It’s about putting intention and energy to
results and outcomes
How its already much better?...
6. Focus on Peace
• Most Media Purposefully Opposite of
What is True
• Sensationalizes the Bad
• Ignores What is Positively Working
• If we Desire a More Peaceful World—
Then I Choose to Focus on What
Already Works to Show.....
7. The World Has Never
Been More at Peace
Than Now
Let me share some key facts and data with you
Promise not to be dull and to keep it short...
8. • Safer Today Than Ever Before
• Locally
• Globally
• Statistically
9. Even NGOs Despite
Good Intentions Skew
Truth.
A few Quick Facts:
From 250 down to 10 per million; 1950s, there
were almost 250 deaths caused by war per
million people. Now, there are less than 10 per
million.
“There is not a single country in the world where
infant or child mortality today is not lower than
it was in 1950,” — Angus Deaton, Princeton
economist on global health issues. (WHO study
confirmed too.)
Bill Gates Foundation report on less poverty
ever;
FBI Crime Statistics show we are safer today than
in the 1950’s, 60’s, 70’s.
13. The Great Green Wall = “Peace Wall”
•4,300 miles long
•9 miles Wide
•Wall of Trees Planted Across The Saraha
•Encompass 11 African Nations Coast to Coast
•Communities & Nations Come Together
•Doing That Produces Viable Solution on Climate Change
The Future is even more Promising; Peace is a
byproduct...