Accra, October 2, 2017//-The High Commission of India in Ghana has organized a Peace Walk & Prayer for World Peace to mark this year’s International Day of Non-Violence on Sunday, 1sOctober 2017.
The walk led by the Indian High Commissioner to Ghana, H.E Birender Singh Yadav started at 0700 AM from India House, Opposite Christ The King Church, near Flagstaff House, Accra through Liberation Road, 37 Military Hospital and back to India House.
Staff of the India High Commission, India Community in Ghana and Indian businesses attended the walk which lasted for more than two hours.
At the 37 Military Hospital, medical drugs and food supplements worth several cedis were donated to Gandhi Ward of the hospital. Donating at the items to senior officials of the hospital, Counselor of High Commission of India in Ghana, Mr Pradeep Kumar Supta said the donation would help improve the medical stocks of the hospital.
Receiving the items, the Acting Commanding of the 37 Military Hospital, Mr Raymond Ewusi thanked the Indian High Commissioner H.E Mr Yadav and staff of the commission for the donation.
Instructively, the International Day of Non-Violence is marked on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement and pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of non-violence.
According to General Assembly resolution A/RES/61/271 of 15 June 2007, which established the commemoration, the International Day is an occasion to “disseminate the message of non-violence, including through education and public awareness”. The resolution reaffirms “the universal relevance of the principle of non-violence” and the desire “to secure a culture of peace, tolerance, understanding and non-violence”.
Introducing the resolution in the General Assembly on behalf of 140 co-sponsors, India’s Minister of State for External Affairs, Mr. Anand Sharma, said that the wide and diverse sponsorship of the resolution was a reflection of the universal respect for Mahatma Gandhi and of the enduring relevance of his philosophy.
Quoting the late leader’s own words, he said: “Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man”.
African Eye Report