Annual Report 2012
Our mission World Accord brings people together. Affirming the sacred worth and dignity of each person, we respond as partners to opportunities that nurture the basic well-being of all.
Our vision We have a vision of world accord – the flourishing of well-being for all where:
basic human needs are met
every person has the opportunity to fulfill their potential
diverse people live peacefully in global community
care of earth and love of neighbour shape our life together
A message from the Executive Director Dear Friends, What a year it has been. World Accord took on its biggest ever public engagement event - our Sustainability Tour. We contacted many organizations and business in in the Kitchener Waterloo area about having them involved. They would go on a list and map and then during the "Tour" people would take the map and their Passport to Sustainability and collect stamps from the places they visited. World Accord coordinated it all and was involved in radio and TV interviews and talks at public events. The Passports were turned in at the World Accord office and put into a draw to win either a construction expedition to build a school in Honduras or have dinner with David Suzuki. That was the other part of the event. We arranged for David Suzuki to speak at a dinner for 100 people at a local restaurant that is working towards sustainability using locally grown food purchased directly from local farmers and producers (though they admit to having problems sourcing locally grown coffee and chocolate). It was a busy time and one may ask "So what?" Continued on pg. 2