World Peace Parents' Mission Plan is to: Refine and adapt a community service project for Rotary clubs worldwide to strengthen the participating clubs and the families in their communities.   Develop educational and instructional how-to materials for Rotary clubs to use as they plan, organize and implement this annual service project to strengthen families in the clubs’ communities.   Enlist, educate and train Rotary clubs to organize and sponsor an annual Family Week Celebration to recognize the benefits the institution of family offers their respective communities.   Develop educational materials for distribution to parents to use in teaching universal virtues and principles to their children.

Recognized as the "natural fundamental, universal group unit of society," the institution of family is a common denominator for every community in the world regardless of race, nationality, religion, political persuasion or geographic location.  Rotary is an international organization of individuals that also transcends the competing interests of race, nationality, religion, political persuasion and geographic location.

A Rotary club undertaking a community service project to empower the family triggers a positive and powerful synergistic action in their community.  Consider this:

• A club that plans, organizes, and sponsors our Empower the Family service project sets into motion events and activities involving not only families, but other primary organizations in the community including churches, schools, businesses, local government, the media, etc. By engaging families and these other organizations, the club's effort is magnified many-fold.
   

• When organized as recommended, Empower the Family becomes an annual community event. Sponsoring the project the second and subsequent years takes much less time and effort, while the synergistic or magnifying impact of the celebration continues to grow.
   

• Residents, particularly children, benefit from having this community-wide, pro-family celebration to counter the anti-family, and the dysfunctional family, entertainment offered by many in the media.
   

• A child growing up where exemplary families and family members are recognized and honored will have a cumulative, indelible and positive impression made upon his or her mind.
   

To activate this energizing effect, World Peace Parents has developed, refined and adapted its Empower the Family project for Rotary clubs worldwide. Educational and instructional "how to" materials are now available to sponsoring clubs, including:

• A detailed Project Manual.
• Downloadable project materials.
• Telephonic consultation with World Peace Parents staff.
• Orientation and training for club leadership.

World Peace Parents invites Rotary clubs to become familiar with this new, unique project and to participate in the Empower the Family project orientation and training. This training is currently offered at a District level if three or more clubs can be trained at one time, and it will also be offered at the 2006 Rotary International Convention in Copenhagen.

World Peace Parents is developing educational materials for distribution to parents to use in teaching universal virtues and principles to their children. When these materials become available, they will be a very powerful and unique add-on feature for the Empower the Family project.

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