Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance, announced the organization of the ministry for the second session of the “National Festival of Tolerance and Human Brotherhood”, under the slogan «on the approach of Zayed», to celebrate the heritage of tolerance established by the late founder Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. The event will be held in Umm Al Emarat Park in Abu Dhabi and will include more than 150 events and initiatives, in cooperation with more than 100 federal, local and private ministries and authorities, and will host activities and programs related to tolerance for more than 25 embassies. In the State, through cultural, heritage and artistic performances, Eng N during their wings at the festival. Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak, during a press conference held yesterday morning at the Ministry of Tolerance in Abu Dhabi, in the presence of the Director General of the Office of the Minister of Tolerance Afra al-Sabri, and the leadership of the ministry, that «the festival is a national occasion to celebrate the International Day for Tolerance, and to promote the values of tolerance, coexistence and respect for the other, in addition to Celebrating and proud of the founding leader Sheikh Zayed, representing a unique humanitarian, national and global model of tolerance, coexistence and human brotherhood. ”The festival also represents a true embodiment of the lofty meanings represented by the“ Human Brotherhood Document for World Peace and Coexistence ”. The festival also aims to raise awareness of the mission of the Ministry of Tolerance and its role in serving the society and the human being. It also focuses on the values and principles underlying the march of the dear UAE and the UAE's safe and tolerant society. In which everyone works for the benefit of all, without distinction or discrimination.
Sheikh Nahyan reviewed the activities of the festival, pointing out that it starts on six axes: programs and activities dedicated to school students, and starts in the morning in the park «Umm Al-Emarat», and programs and events of the public, and theatrical and artistic performances and intellectual meetings, including the march of tolerance, and evenings Exhibitions and exhibitions of community initiatives, workshops, seminars and specialized conferences that discuss issues related to tolerance and everything related to it, in addition to joint initiatives with various groups of society, individuals and institutions, where the efforts of all federal and local authorities, the private sector and communities.
1000 Creations
Sheikh Nahyan revealed the launch of the Ministry of Tolerance «the 1000 Creativity Project» during the festival, to be one of the most important innovative initiatives that focus on enriching knowledge content in the areas of writing and visual arts, which will promote and spread tolerance among different groups to reach the world. To the active role of the Ministry of Tolerance in organizing the World Tolerance Summit in Dubai. He pointed out that the festival will be launched with a major march, under the title of “March of Peoples” in Abu Dhabi, to be led by a number of ministers, senior officials, intellectuals, senior writers and university professors, in addition to more than 50 ambassadors to the country from brotherly and friendly countries. The festival will conclude on November 16, the International Day for Tolerance.
He also shed light on the program of seminars to be organized on the sidelines of the festival, pointing out that there are a large number of seminars, dialogues and workshops aimed at promoting the values of tolerance, and the participation of academics, experts, intellectuals and media, in addition to an expanded conference on tolerance, where what has been achieved, What we aspire for in the future with a deep intellectual and philosophical vision of tolerance around the world, and its importance in the stability and progress of nations. The symposium also focuses on a number of intellectual issues, especially the relations with the communities, a session on the role of the family in promoting the values of community tolerance, in addition to the Knights of Tolerance symposium, a symposium on innovative initiatives, which celebrates talented and creative people in various fields of art, literature and science. Promoting tolerance through international cooperation.
Knights of Tolerance
Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak explained that the festival is being held this year and the Knights of Tolerance program exceeded all expectations. More than 60 institutions participated in the festival and reached all emirates of the UAE. More than 500 people participated, all of them ambassadors for tolerance of their local institutions and environment. The festival will celebrate the sports teams participating in the cricket and kabaddi tolerance tournaments, organized by the Ministry of Tolerance in cooperation with more than 12 local authorities, and sponsored by 42 private parties, and allocated to the category of workers at the state level. 40 participants A team representing most of the workers' villages in the country. The teams comprise individuals from 20 countries who cooperate in a sporting competition that represents the best form of tolerance and human brotherhood through harmony, coexistence and sympathy among them, all determinants of tolerance. Conclusion of the festival activities.
Morning and evening activities
The activities of the festival are divided into two periods, one morning and one evening.The morning activities focus on inviting students of public and private schools together, and motivating them to participate in an integrated program, starting with the invitation of «doll of tolerance» to form different teams comprising all spectrums of public and private schools, and each The team rivals the other, with hundreds of awards and gifts for everyone. There are also rhythmic bands, in which students participate in competing bands. Each team plays rhythmic instruments with international melodies. Students participating in activities receive a variety of games, whose diversity represents the goals, objectives and values of tolerance, under the slogan “Our diverse world”. In the end, everyone marches in the march of school students inside the park of Umm Al Emarat, all of them under five arches.
The programs and activities of the daily evening of the festival include traditional and popular performances local, Arab and international, in addition to theatrical performances, and theatrical performances for children, as well as international participation, and the participation of government and private institutions, and children's carnival, with the participation of a large number of embassies of the State and the communities living The second day of the memory of the Messenger of humanity through heritage and theatrical performances, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education.
Zayed is a man of peace and tolerance
Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance, said: “Through the National Festival of Tolerance and Human Brotherhood, we are proud to say that the late Sheikh Zayed was an example and example of a man of wisdom, a man of peace, and a man of positive communication with the world. Indeed, the man of development and progress, and especially the man of tolerance, peaceful coexistence and mutual respect among human beings, in order to achieve good for all, '' he said, stressing that the wise leadership of the UAE is the vital and important factor in what we see in the state of tolerance, coexistence, prosperity, stability and human brotherhood keen on everyone without exception.
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The 1000 Creativity Project is one of the most innovative initiatives focused on enriching knowledge content.