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‘Peace in your hands’ educational pack goes to 200 primary schools in the Netherlands. The ‘Peace in your hands’ pack is part of a teaching materials box which is being distributed to all primary schools with more than 10 refugee children. The Kinderpostzegels Foundation (support for vulnerable children around the world) and LOWAN (educational support…

Presentation of the first teaching materials box with ‘Peace in your hands’ by Undersecretary Sander Dekker of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Undersecretary Sander Dekker of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science presented the first teaching materials box to the De Regenboog primary school in Zoetermeer. The teaching materials boxes are being…

Adelaide, Australia We’ve just had two wonderful pot luck evenings, with amazing and inspiring ideas from our Dru yogis. Now we’re taking part in a United Nations event involving the World Peace Flame and Dru Yoga, to raise awareness about creating harmony & peace. This event includes: a multifaith blessing at 10.30am lighting of the…

The World Peace Flame (WPF) has had an influential role within Australia over the last several years, touching many individuals, manifesting its presence in a variety of forms and participating in numerous events for peace. One of the seven flames that came together to create the WPF in 1999 was the Australian Flame. Patricia Brown…

Flame unites four formerly separate villages in Holsbeek Inspired by the existing World Peace Flame monument in Cadzand (Netherlands), a new flame was lit in a festive ceremony in Holsbeek, Belgium, on Saturday 3 October. The flame in Cadzand has burned continuously since 2004. And it was a visit there by representatives from Holsbeek that triggered the building of…

On Christmas Eve, in Eindhoven, NL, a torch march is being organized through the town centre. The march is a dedication to peace, freedom and tolerance and has been organized since 1992 after a terrorist action against migrants in Solingen (Germany). Thousands of people join the march as a sign that they want to contribute…

The work of our fantastic team in India is going on with amazing results! 17 April 2015, a WPF medical health camp was organized in India for poor people, living in the district of Gujarat. Below a summary of the achievements till now: 51 medical health camps have been organized total 20. 616 patients have been treated!…

A few men climbed mountain peaks in Antarctica and called a peak which was never climbed before, the Peace Peak, after the World Peace Flame. On their way to the top they took the burning WPF with them. Here is a part of their report: ‘We have had a wonderful, well deserved rest day at…

The World Peace Flame monument at the Airborne Museum in Oosterbeek (Netherlands) was inaugurated at 15.30 hours on Saturday 20 December. Lighting the flame was the Mayor of Renkum Jean Paul Gebben and Savitri MacCuish, director of the World Peace Flame Foundation. The flame was lit from the World Peace Flame at the Vredespaleis (the…

October 8, King Filip of Belgium received the World Peace Flame from Nicole van Herle, chairperson of the World Peace Flame Group in Riemst, Belgium. The King participated in the celebrations of the 75 anniversary of the Albert Canal and visited an exhibition called ‘The Bridge’. The World Peace Flame monument in Riemst/ Vroenhoven is…