Family Week Celebration™

Picture yourself by a small placid lake in a quiet, idyllic setting. You lean down, and like a young child, pick up a pebble and toss it into the mirrored surface of the lake. There is a small splash followed by ripples spreading in ever-widening circles until the entire surface of the lake is disturbed.

This analogy describes the influence the Family Week Celebration can have in your community. Like the small pebble, a Rotary club or other sponsor of a Family Week Celebration can impact the entire community.

The mission of the Family Week Celebration is to:

• Recognize and celebrate the benefits exemplary families provide the community in an annual community service project.
• Recognize and honor exemplary families and family members in local communities.
• Strengthen Rotary clubs and other sponsors by connecting them in a meaningful way to their local community.

What is the project?

The Family Week Celebration includes activities and events involving each of the community's six primary organizations, namely: the family, churches, schools, businesses, local government, and the media. The following table briefly describes a typical Family Week agenda:

The Basic Program

Day	Activity or Event	Primary Organization(s)
Sunday	Sacred Music Festival	Church and Family
Monday	* A Night Home with the Family	Government and Family
Tuesday	Open
Wednesday	Open
Thursday	Open
Friday	Community Family Night Out	Business and Family
Saturday	Family Fun Festival and Awards Ceremony	Family, School, Government Media and Business

Families are the common denominator for every community in the world. Strong, functional families living and teaching universal values, virtues, principles, and civility raise responsible rising generations. Responsible rising generations steeped in universal goodness will seek peace.

In seeking peace on a local, national, and world basis, mankind tends to look beyond the mark. Think about it. From the world's centers of power, politicians have proposed plan after endless plan, wars have been started and ended, diplomats have deliberated, awards and prizes have been given, and judges have ruled. Yet, these laudable efforts seem to evaporate with the players. History confirms that lasting peace emanates from the human heart, not from the centers of power. It's the home that sets the sail of the human heart.

In looking beyond the mark we often forget this basic truth, enunciated in the United Nation's 1948 Declaration of Human Rights, Section 16(3).

"The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and entitled to protection by society and the state.

As the basic universal unit of society, home and family hold the keys to resolving societal problems leading to local and world peace. The Family Week Celebration challenges a community and its residents to "Put Family First™."

Project Materials

World Peace Parents Foundation has developed educational materials for sponsors of its Family Week Celebration. In summary, these materials are:

• A Presentation Kit for use in gaining the approval of your organization as the sponsor.
• A 58 page Project Manual providing step-by-step information for sponsoring the project in your local community.
• Document downloads for sponsors. There are more than three dozen documents available to sponsors of the Family Week project that may be downloaded. To download documents requires the sponsor to be licensed by the Foundation and have a user name and password.

Licensed Rotary Club Sponsors should click on the sub-menu “For Rotary Clubs” under the “Family Week” menu to find the “Rotary Club Downloads” menu.

What To Do

In summary, the Family Week Celebration project involves the six primary organizations in every community:

• Family
• Local Government
• Church
• Business
• Media
• Schools

Your organization can provide the "trigger" that initiates a ripple effect throughout your entire community... ultimately, into every home.

Protected Identity

World Peace Parents Foundation has developed and registered trademarks, including World Peace Parents®, Empower the Family®, Putting Family First®, and Family Hour® to protect sponsors licensed by it to use the project's identity in their community. The right to use the project, its trademarks, and copyrighted material, and to access project documents from its' website, is granted by a simple, one-page License Agreement. The cost for the license is $100 per annum. By requiring certain minimum license standards, the Foundation builds a consistent and unique image benefiting all sponsors of the project.