I would like to thank everybody in this hall: GYI participants, host families, coordinators of this program, GYI teachers and TA’s.
The main aim of our cooperation is to create a multicultural atmosphere for our children, to form the principles of tolerance, equal rights and pluralism of concepts when they communicate with the representatives of different nationalities and religion. Surely this will help us to build the bridges between nations, make our contribution to the idea of peace, harmony and good all over the world.
This program is focused on a child’s individually valuable and comprehensive development as an active and useful citizen of our countries and as a member of international community. It makes countries and nationalities closer.
Daily news about international conflicts based on policy and religion have become cruel reality of nowadays. And much worse they are turning in a routine of the world policy. So, children are the only chance for our peaceful future. They are to rule the destiny of countries and continents.
Not to be late, it is possible and it is necessary to cultivate culture of peace and mutual understanding in their hearts and involve young generation in the process of solving global problems and issue. As children are the most sincere and warmhearted on our planet, we their teachers, we are trying to involve them into the process of solving the global problems and making the right solutions. We are proud of our students. Three weeks ago we planted perfect GYI seeds and now are ready to have an excellent crop. Only by the method of the children’s diplomacy we can guarantee peaceful future free of conflicts and provide it to the world’s multinational variety.
I would like to express the word of gratitude to everybody for their efforts in maintaining the idea of friendship between students from different countries and realization of this program.
Dr Thomas Forsgren Director, Global Youth Institute
Jean Ellenhorff and Susan Stroope, teachers and coordinators of GYI program
Carol Brown and Adrienne Moen, Friendship Force of Greater Des Moines
Shao Ming, teacher from China
Nick Wu, teacher’s assistant from Taiwan
Alex Nassif, teacher’s assistant US
Eddi Ginsberg, teacher’s assistant US
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