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I just got this feedback letter:

Dear Ronit,

Our very sincere thanks for your wonderful presentation at our recent Annual General Meeting, on the topic: ‘Helping Children and Young People Address Racism and Prejudice’.

We always try to have at our AGM a speaker who will challenge and stretch our ideas about the way we, as a small interfaith women’s association, can fulfil our aspiration towards building a culture of peace.  Issues of racism and prejudice are at the heart of this challenge.

Your presentation about the Together for Humanity project, and in particular the findings from your surveys of children and young people, as well as descriptions of some of the processes you use in your transformational work, was a truly engaging experience for all those present.   This was evident from the high degree of participation throughout, in questions and comments to yourself and the general discussion which the ideas provoked.

My own hope is that some of our members may have been motivated by your presentation to volunteer for the Together for Humanity project should the opportunity arise.  We look forward to continuing contact with you and your important work.

Sincerely,

Wendy Flannery
Coordinator
Believing Women for a Culture of Peace
Believing Women for a Culture of Peace

Racist Kids

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Multicultural circle of kidsYesterday, I went to give a presentation at Griffith University for International Peace Day 2009. I talked about the foundation I coordinate in Queensland (Together for Humanity) and the important work we do with kids to ensure they do not grow up to be racist adults.

As part of the discussion, I gave very sad statistics about kids’ attitude towards different races and talked to the audience about the negative influence of the media and the kids’ parents at home.

At the end of the evening, a dark Indian woman thanked me for the talk and said it was alarming to see the figures on the screen.

“I have a story to tell you”, she said.

As you probably know by now, I love stories and after you read this, you will know why I wanted to pass this story on to you.

“I’m from Indian and I’m married to a Scottish man. Recently, our 3-years-old daughter’s birthday was coming. She said she wanted to invite friends from her day care center home, ‘But I don’t want to invite boys or blacks’, she said. I was very shocked. I’m as black as can be and always thought that because my husband has fair skin and comes from a different culture to mine, we are the perfect example of living in cultural harmony. I never thought my own daughter would say something like that”, she told me.

“What did you do?” I asked her.

“Well, I thought about it for a day and then told her, ‘You can choose who to invite to your party. Daddy is a boy and because you are not inviting any boys, Daddy won’t come to your party and I’m black and because you are not inviting blacks, I can’t come either, so you’re going to have to manage your own party. Have fun'”, she said.

“And…” I was so curious.

“Two days later, I asked her ‘Who did you invite for your birthday?’ and she said she’d invited a boy who is her best friend and a black girl who is a good friend”.

I thought that was brilliant! What would you do?

Ronit

The Motivational Speaker is Live!

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I’m so happy I could jump out of my skin!

My new website is up and running and already showing my motivational presentations and workshops in two areas: Cultural Awareness and Diversity and Communication and Relationships.

This is a great place for schools, community organizations, youth services, government services and schools anywhere in the world to find and book some inspiration for their own audiences.

Read the site, find out more and book on any presentation page.

Ronit

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