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Council for #KindnessMatters

Dame Tessy Antony de Nassau, Patron for UNESCO MGIEP’s #KindnessMatters Campaign has formed a global Council to achieve the goals of the campaign. The campaign aims to inspire a positive culture of kindness amongst young people towards promoting peace, sustainable development and global citizenship. It has an ambitious aim to collect 1 million global stories of kindness by December 2021. So far, 100,000+ acts of kindness have been carried out by young people from 150+ countries.

About #KindnessMatters Dame Tessy Antony de Nassau

    

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