Working party set up for Indian march
A working group has been established to see how Friends can be involved in the Jai Jagat march planned for 2020
A working party of Quakers and others has been set up to look at ways in which Friends in the UK can be involved in an international march campaigning for Sustainable Development Goals.
The march, Jai Jagat, from Delhi to Geneva, is planned for 2020. It is the work of Ekta Parishad, a community-based organisation in India, based on the Gandhian tradition of nonviolence, that campaigns on behalf of landless and tribal people.
This is just one aspect of Ekta Parishad’s activities. The organisation said: ‘Sending a small group of young Quakers (five young people aged eighteen to twenty-five years) to participate in a nonviolent training programme would be one practical step towards seeing how Quakers from the UK could become involved. We are looking for young people to attend the whole training camp and to become advocates for the aims of Jai Jagat on their return to the UK.’
Applications from young people to go on the related nonviolent training programme in October have to be submitted by 31 August.
