How can we globalise compassion?
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n a world where globalisation is the new mantra and we’re all connected with each other through high-speed internet, air travel and so on, “we are getting disconnected with each other in our hearts. We are squeezing inside ourselves and getting localised with various political slogans and promoting the sentiment of selfishness, which we saw in Brexit and other cases. So why not start a movement to globalise human compassion?”
With such powerful words in an impassioned speech filled with anguish and anger, but also inspiration, challenging each of the 2,450 Rotarians assembled at the South Asia Literacy Summit in Chennai, Nobel Peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi set about the task he performs best — advocacy for children. Children deprived of education, healthcare, freedom and their very childhood.
Compassion, he said, was inherent, and inbuilt in each of us. “Sometimes compassion is the most precious gift which we confine to ourselves or only to our biological children.” But when millions of children in the world were deprived of their childhood and denied the most basic rights, and enslaved in demeaning and dehumanising bondage and labour, “the education and freedom of such children can come only through the compassion which is inside each one of you present here.”