We're just getting ready to launch the site, and very excited that our first promotion of Tolerance Day is going to be appearing in The Week Junior. Thanks to all our supporters and advisory board members. We couldn't have done it without you. 

Please do let us know what you think of the project, you can tweet us @ToleranceDayUK, and do like our Facebook page 
https://www.facebook.com/Tolerance-Day-1896644263954991/

This campaign was born out of an overwhelming sense of impotence on the dawn of June 24th 2016. Teetering on the brink of a  raw landscape, not new, but newly exposed by the earthquake that revealed the gaping rift in our society. The divide here at home seemed to lend some macabre rationale to the divisions and atrocities going on elsewhere in the world.
​The three of us felt impelled to do something, to make a difference, to start somewhere and researching this idea of ‘tolerance’ seemed a good enough place to begin.
We found that the UN’s International Day for Tolerance was initiated  in 1995 in the shadow of  similarly overwhelming divisions on our doorstep: the war in Bosnia, fought over the ancient roots of a culture clash between tribes, religions and socio-economic divides. Surely teaching tolerance in practice from the earliest age will prevent our children from succumbing to conflict where dialogue, debate and reason could instead prevail.  We want our children to learn that ‘tolerance is the highest result of education’ .

Our work to date has been focussed around getting kids thinking for themselves, not to accept the paradigms of their parents or peers but to develop, via their own innate curiosity, sound reasoning skills of their own within a framework of listening, dialogue, debate. Combining this with understanding and tolerance of people’s rights and freedoms to their own opinions, beliefs and practices is a step in the right direction towards a better future for our kids.
I am now not overwhelmed by impotence, but rather by the immensely powerful flood of support from the global community. Our tiny efforts have been championed and swept along on a tide of goodwill and cooperation.
 

We're very excited to be able to say that The Week Junior has agreed to be a media partners for the International Day of Tolerance.

We're hoping to run a survey of children's experience of tolerance and intolerance and share the responses with all of you on 16th November.

Onward and upward as they say....