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International Friendship Week is celebrated with the help of change-makers, leaders, schools, partners, and kids around the world. Let us all come together and celebrate friendship.WHEN IS INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP WEEK?Friendship Week is celebrated in the 2nd week of November. In 2019, it will be celebrated from Nov 11-Nov17.WHAT IS INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP WEEK?International Friendship Week was created to provide an opportunity for the world to stop and re-assess its friendship index. A week, celebrated in creating friendship ambassadors around the globe, and for all of us to come together to not only appreciate existing friendships but also pave ways for the new bonds. This week emphasizes the essence of friendship, love, care, and empathy while creating a discourse on anti-bullying and depression.?WHY INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP WEEK?The world is a melting pot of various cultures, regions, religions, and diversity. As the boundaries are thinning, we need a renewed focus on friendship to help kids to harness the right qualities to help them make better empathetic leaders of tomorrow. Friendship is a superpower that we all have, but we seldom use. IFW is not focusing on the idea of empathy, kindness, and inclusion but focusing on friendship, the fundamental fabric that stitch us all together as we share our lives under the same world.WHERE ARE WE CELEBRATING FRIENDSHIP WEEK?Friendship Week will be celebrated around the world by ambassadors/partners/champions of friendship. Schools, organizations, and communities across the globe are stepping up in celebrating friendship week, and extending the message of “I am your friend!”, throughout their communities.WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP WEEK?Friendship Week is created for the citizens of the world — especially the young ones. IFW is an excellent opportunity for our young ones to step up and change the world by creating friendships that the world needs.HOW TO CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP WEEK?International Friendship Week is conducted using the help of schools, organizations, and communities.Wish everyone “Happy Friendship Week, I am your friend” every day of Friendship WeekBe the Friendship Superhero by being the friend to everyone that you always wanted.Create/perform activities that celebrate the friend in us.Help students realize that friendship is a superpower that they always haveSplit each day with a theme on friendshipShare your stories of friendship, diversity, inclusion, and kindnessMAKE SUPER FRIENDSPLEDGE OF FRIENDSHIPWho could all do it??Students / Teachers / Parents / Admin StaffWhen we do it??Mornings of Friendship WeekWhat we do??We take Friendship Pledge: “My pledge of Allegiance to Friendship is that, I will be Friends with everyone and beyond. Through good times and bad, through sickness and health, and celebrate love, empathy, diversity and Inclusion. As we share the same life, under the same world.”.Why do we do it??We affirm our friendship as a superpower by taking the pledge to be good Samaritans and assurance to befriend anyone/anything through the promise of friendship.Where to do it??We could take the pledge anywhere by standing straight and right hand on the heart.How to do it??Stand straight and recite the pledge alone or in a group.STORIES OF KINDNESSWho could all do it??Teachers / Parents / Students with other student/(s)When we do it??As a group activity anytime during friendship week.What we do??Friends, teachers, and parents will discuss their stories of kindness. The more diverse the stories, the better it gets.Why do we do it??This activity is a great exercise to see how kindness grows-up in every corner and every place in our lives.Where to do it??This activity could be conducted in-classroom / lunchroom or dinner table.How to do it??Teachers/parents/ students would go in circles and reminisce their stories of kindness.GREETINGS OF FRIENDSHIPWho could all do it??Students, Student-teacher and Student-parentWhen we do it??Every time during the friendship weekWhat we do??We greet everyone with “I am your friend” or “hello my friend”.Why do we do it??We do it to showcase that we are a friend’s first society. We showcase our ability to make friends and enforce friendship bonds by greeting everyone with a genuinely bonding greet: “I am your friend” or “hello my friend”.Where to do it??Everywhere during friendship week.How to do it??Whenever we meet someone, instead of wishing them “hi” or “hello,” we will greet them with: “I am your friend” or “hello my friend”.FRIENDSHIP AS A SUPER POWERWho could all do it??Students / Teachers / Parents / Admin StaffWhen we do it??Anytime during Friendship Week by committing to be a super friend.What we do??We take the pledge of friendship and commit ourselves to be a superpower. We pledge to wear a friendship bracelet all the time. Friendship bracelet is your cape, and it is to beam your super friendship powers to everyone.Why do we do it??Super friends are created to bring the superpower of friendship. Super friends are everyone’s friends and expect nothing in return. They are good Samaritans who are available for everyone /every time.Where to do it??We could commit to being super friends by committing to be friends with everyone/everything, preferably in front of teachers or in-front of adult family members.How to do it??Stand straight and take the pledge of friendship. Once you have said the “pledge of friendship,” you commit yourself to be a friend of everyone/everything, unconditionally.DESIGN A PLEDGEWho could all do it??Students with rest of the class and teacherWhen we do it??Anytime throughout friendship weekWhat we do??We come together and help create our pledge of friendship. Key ingredients it should include is to promote acceptance, diversity, inclusion, and togetherness.Why do we do it??This activity is a great exercise to think about friendship and all it has to offer. Students will discuss the best way to narrate the qualities of friendship. All teams would come and believe creatively deep into the merits of friendship.Where to do it??In classrooms or group sessionHow to do it??Students would come together, listing all qualities of friendship. Students then engage in finding the best way to stitch the merits in an ensemble of poetic lines that forms a pledge. Do send us your entries to team@.AMBASSADORS OF SUPER FRIENDSHIP Who could all do it??Students/ Teachers/ ParentsWhen we do it??Anytime during Friendship WeekWhat we do??Students, Teachers, and Parents meet to discuss the power of friendship and convince others to join the super friendship.Why do we do it??Friendship plays a central glue in connecting the world with kindness, grace, diversity, and inclusion. By recruiting others to join the growing community of super friends, friendship ambassadors will make the difference in the world.Where to do it??This activity is performed at any place accessible to friendship ambassadors.How to do it??Friendship Ambassadors connect with their friends and family and explain to them about the idea of Super friendship. Friendship Ambassadors addresses any open concerns to help create Super friends.VOLUNTEER FOR A CAUSEWho could all do it??Students/ Teachers/ Parents.When we do it??Anytime during or After Friendship Week.What we do??Friendship Volunteers would attach to a cause, contribute to the society, create an impact, and change the world.Why do we do it??Working for a cause helps Volunteers understand several issues impacting the Humanity. The aspect of attaching to a cause will generate the idea of serving the community by friending with others.Where to do it??With Non-Profits and cause-based organizations.How to do it??Students with the help of teachers/ Parents visit communities seeking support and volunteer their timeSPREAD FRIENDSHIPSTORIES OF FRIENDSHIPWho could all do it??Teachers / Parents / Students with other student/(s)When we do it??As a group activity anytime during friendship week.What we do??Friends, teachers, and parents will discuss their stories of friendship. The more diverse the stories, the better it gets.Why do we do it??To show that friendships grow-up in every corner and every place.Where to do it??This is an excellent activity for in-classroom / lunchroom or dinner table.How to do it??Teachers/parents/ students would go in circles and reminisce their stories of friendship(good or bad).SHARE TO CAREWho could all do it??Students.When we do it??Anytime in School during Friendship Week.What we do??Students will share something special with other students.Why do we do it??Sharing something important imparts the qualities of empathy, care, and trust. These are essential ingredients that form the core of friendship.Where to do it??Students could perform this activity in their classrooms, lunchrooms, and other group interaction opportunity.How to do it??Teachers could request the students to bring something special. During a group activity, students will connect with other students(friends or not) and share something special and discuss why is it special.SECRETS OF FRIENDSHIPWho could all do it??Students / TeachersWhen we do it??Anytime during friendship weekWhat we do??Friends share their “safe to discuss” secrets with other friends.Why do we do it??Sharing a relatively “safe to discuss” secret with others establish trust, care, and empathy. It helps expand the circle of trust that opens someone up to accept others. It is an excellent mingling technique.Where to do it??Anyplace as preferred by friends involved.How to do it??Friends could either do it in pairs or groups. Each friend would share a “safe to discuss” secret to open up to others. Others would reciprocate by sharing their “safe to discuss” secret.QUALITIES OF FRIENDSHIPWho could all do it??Students [with other students, teachers or parents]When we do it??Any group activity time within school time or family timeWhat we do??Participants gather and discuss the qualities of friends that they like the most. The exercise is intended to share the similarities and differences in conditions that we enjoy in our friends.Why do we do it??It will help us to understand what we like about our friends and how others like their friends. These differences would help us know that our differences are our biggest strength. This exercise helps us discover why someone prefers some qualities over others.Where to do it??It is a group activity that participants could conduct during classroom sessions, or they could pursue this with their family during dinner table conversation.How to do it??Participants would assemble. Participants are then given the task to list the qualities that they love in their friends. Each quality should be written in one post-it square. Participants would keep their post-it. Once all the students have listed the qualities, all participants would then come to the discussion board and stick their post-its. Participants then gather identical qualities together. Participants could then explore the differences and similarities in the qualities that they captured.CIRCLE OF APPRECIATIONWho could all do it? Student / TeacherWhen we do it??It could be an ongoing activity on Friendship Week.What we do??Participants could post anonymous notes appreciating a kind gesture, friendly move, or anything they liked in their friends or other participants.Why do we do it??This activity is a great exercise to showcase which qualities and gestures we appreciate seeing. This activity will also motivate us to do similar acts of kindness, inclusion, and friendship within our circle.Where to do it??This activity could be taking place at a central location accessible to many.How to do it??Each participant is instructed to act as a citizen journalist and capture anything they observed around kindness, care, empathy, inclusion, diversity, or friendship. Participants would then note the quality and put it on post-it as an anonymous note for everyone to see.WRITINGS OF A FRIENDWho could all do it??StudentsWhen we do it??Any time before or during Friendship WeekWhat we do??It is an excellent opportunity for the creative people among us to come forward to pen down their creative side to celebrate friendship. A poem, a picture, a story, or any creative stuff they could create and share it with the school and our global platform.Why do we do it??Pen holds lots of power, and this act would help us realize that. It is is a suitable activity to showcase how words coming together or lines crossing each other could communicate a strong story that would impact us all.Where to do it??Participants would work on this activity during their school or home hours. They could submit their contributions to school teacher/admin or email us to post online at team@How to do it??Participants are instructed to contribute a piece of art celebrating friendship. The writeup could be a poem, story, song, music composition, painting, or any other creative art that communicates the story of friendship in an artistic form.WALL OF FRIENDSHIPWho could all do it??Students / Teachers /ParentsWhen we do it??During Friendship WeekWhat we do??We assign a wall of friendship and put things that remind us of friendship so we all could enjoyWhy do we do it??Friendship has different meanings to different individuals. Allocating a wall of friendship and then decorating it with the friendship memorabilia and sharing it with everyone would help us understand how we all enjoy friendship. Wall of friendship could be a wall at home as well, where everyone in the family could step up and celebrate friendship. A wall of friendship could also be the sacred wall that never sees any unfriendly gesture/feeling.Where to do it??This activity could be performed by transforming a wall at the common traffic area in school or home to “Wall of Friendship”.How to do it??Participants could first collectively declare a Wall of Friendship. Then they could start populating that wall with friendship pictures, gestures, memorabilia that reminds participants of friendship. Everyone is instructed to be friendly, inviting, inclusive, and loving in front of the Wall of Friendship.PROMOTE DIVERSITY & INCLUSIONMAP DIVERSITY ON WORLD MAPWho could all do it??Students / TeacherWhen we do it??During a group activity in school during friendship weekWhat we do??Each participant puts a pin at each location they have heard their family member/friend belongs toWhy do we do it??This activity will show us how we all have one common trait, and that is our diversity. It helps create a visual of how each of us carries a massive lineage of diversity that brought us here.Where to do it??In classroomHow to do it??Each participant is instructed to investigate all the geographic location of their relatives, family members, and friends belong. They capture it in the list and bring it to class. All participants pin their picks, and then everyone could have a conversation on the diversity we all carry.SIMILARITY IN DIVERSITYWho could all do it??Students / TeacherWhen we do it??During a group activity in school during friendship weekWhat we do??Each participant lists all the different traits they see in the classroom, their friends, family, and any person they know. The more diversity option we could extract, the more we will all come together to learn how it is what is keeping us healthy and united.Why do we do it??This activity will show us how we all have one common trait, and that is our diversity. It helps create a virtue of how our differences are the most common things we know around us. It shows us how we all are filled with so many diversities of opinions/thoughts/people.Where to do it??In classroomHow to do it??Each participant is instructed to investigate all the diverse segmentation in their family/friend/acquaintance. List all the different aspects and share it with the class and discuss how one common trait, our diversity surrounds us all.CELEBRATE DIVERSITY IN FAMILY TREEWho could all do it??Students / TeacherWhen we do it??During a group activity in school during friendship weekWhat we do??Each participant brings out the diverse families in a family tree. All diversity aspects must be shared and celebrated. Young/Old, Multi-cultural, different orientation, couples with animals.Why do we do it??This activity will show us how we all have common traits, and that is our diversity. It helps create a perspective of how each of us carries a massive lineage of diversity that brought us here.Where to do it??In classroomHow to do it??Each participant is instructed to investigate all the diverse segmentation in their family tree. List all the different aspects and share it with the class and discuss how we all are surrounded by one common trait, diversity. ................
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