Educators Receive Internationally Adopted "Kindness Curriculum" Free of Charge
For Immediate Release:
January 26, 2000
Contact:
Jason Baker 98201 22602
Mumbai -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) will help teach kindness to young people by making award-winning humane education materials available free of charge to schools throughout India. PETA will debut Share the World, a "kindness curriculum," during "Celebration Week" at the Bombay Teachers Training College.
Date Time Place
Thursday, January 27 11:15 a.m. sharp Bombay Teachers Training College, ninth floor, Mahakavi Rd. (Near Regal Cinema; next to Ling's Chinese Restaurant)
The first of its kind in the nation, the kit includes a videotape starring famous actors and models that children love. It is already in use throughout the United States, Greece, the Bahamas, and Spain and uses role-playing and lessons in history, science, and English to teach students how to grow into responsible, caring citizens. PETA hopes the curriculum, inspired by the words of Mahatma Gandhi, who said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated," will influence students' general attitude towards life and respect for themselves, the world they live in, and all its diverse inhabitants.
PETA's humane education program highlights the fact that teaching respect for even the smallest and strangest living creatures is essential to children's moral development, and points to studies showing that young people who get away with violence toward animals often later commit acts of violence toward those they should be able to relate to most, other human beings.
Aaron S. Gross, a Harvard University researcher who represents PETA, will screen the India premiere of the "Share the World" educational video for the more than 200 teachers-to-be attending the Celebration Week conference. Simultaneous with the conference, PETA is gifting the video and humane education materials to 100 top schools nationwide and will provide the materials free to any school upon request.
A forthcoming version of the video featuring Indian film stars and models, and all new educational materials will be distributed to every school in India later this year.
More information is available on-line at www.ShareTheWorld.com.
Members of the media are invited to attend a special vegetarian luncheon that will follow the conference, where Mr. Gross will be available for questions about PETA's program.
