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Unity Parks
cultivating Unity, Peace and Harmony
with Nature and between all Cultures on Earth
Original Unity Park at Home for Humanity, Haut Valromey, France
Unity Parks are a Planetary Participatory Initiative
on the One Home Journey 2024-2030: 7 Years for 7 Generations
initiated by the Home for Humanity Movement for Planetary Regeneration.
The aim is to create Unity Parks in every country on Earth
to foster unity and peace:
within us, between us and with all life on Earth.
In every Unity Park, local plants or trees are planted to represent
every country on Earth, and to appreciate the unique values and gifts
each of our diverse cultures contributes to our common future.
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English Version
Purpose
Each Unity Park fosters unity, peace and harmony between the diversity of peoples, cultures and ecologies on our shared home planet, Earth. Each Unity Park is unique, grounded in its local culture and geography. Yet, all Unity Parks are connected across all borders in common purpose: to amplify our shared intention to live in unity and peace with the diverse and indivisible family of life on our one home, Earth.
UNITY
PEACE
HARMONY
Contribution to Unity, Peace and Harmony
between People and Cultures, and with Nature:
Each Unity Park is initiated and cared for collectively by the local community. Each Unity Park is offered by its hosts as a gift to humanity and to the 'global commons'. Unity Parks expand gradually as the One Home Journey travels, season by season and year by year to diverse countries across each geographic region, between 2024 to 2030. Each tree or bush symbolises the unique values that every country, with its specific cultures and geographies, brings to our shared humanity and to life as a whole, and represents that culture's invaluable contribution to our shared future. Through the Unity Parks we establish a personal connection with all peoples as members of our shared human family. The Unity Park is a celebration of the indispensable value of biological and cultural diversity.
As a participatory initiative, it is a space to experience the interconnected wholeness of existence and to reconnect, as humanity, to the inherent unity within us, between us, and with all life.
Contribution to Integral Sustainable Development:
In each Unity Park, the diverse countries on Earth are represented (not by exotic or imported trees, but) by a variety of local, endemic and locally appropriate trees and plants, which offer a range of aesthetic, nutritional, medicinal, soil-regeneration and eco-system restoration benefits.
Unity Parks contribute to several SDGs, including: zero hunger (SDG 2), health and wellbeing (SDG 3), life on land (SDG 15), sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11); quality education (SDG 4); Peace and Justice (SDG 16). Furthermore, they complement and transcend individual SDGs with an integral, cultural approach.
Inclusive, Regenerative Future Building:
All Unity Parks are part of the Earth Campus of the
for regenerative Future Building.
Unity Parks are thus an interconnected, participatory planetary initiative to engage all people of all backgrounds, cultures and ages everywhere on Earth to rediscover our own humanity through the appreciation of the unique values of diverse cultures, and to experience harmony with nature, peace with all cultures, and unity with the family of life on Earth.
SPECIAL UNITY PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE
UNITY PARKS in AFRICA
co-initiated by communities in the First Season of the One Home Journey
September to December 2024
In the first African Season of the One Home Journey, diverse communities came together in each country to jointly initiate Unity Parks.
These were joyful occasions marked by 'earth citizenship', intergenerational participation, social cohesion and inter-cultural unity.
Each was a moment of celebration, with traditional music and dance, dedicated to Nature.
All communities favored Indigenous, traditional, medicinal and nutritious trees and plants,
and opted for organic agriculture or permaculture.
They were as keen as us to ensure that the Unity Park was of real benefit to all as a source of nutrition and livelihoods,
a place to restore, learn and practice Indigenous and traditional organic agriculture and permaculture,
as much as a place for environmental and civic education and community cohesion.
From rural farms to urban informal settlements (slums), to refugee camps to Universities,
the diverse Unity Parks in our first Season in Africa are fertile seedbeds for peace and harmony with nature
and integral sustainable development for the wellbeing of present and future generations.
ZIMBABWE
Catholic University of Zimbabwe, Harare
Integral Kumusha, Mukoto Village, Buhera North
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Great Zimbabwe University, Masvingo
SOUTH AFRICA
NdawoEntle Community Farm (“A Beautiful place that gives birth to love”) at Makers Valley in Johannesburg
LESOTHO
HOLO Heal Our Earth Organisation, Arts Studio, Matsieng
TANZANIA
Rubagumya (“The one with Strength”) Community Hub,
Bukoba, Lake Ukerewe (Lake Victoria)
Dr. Gertrude Mongella,
Former Chair of the UN Women’s Conference in Beijing
and first President of Pan-African Parliament
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UGANDA
New Talent for the Best Future Orphanage and School at Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Nakivale, Uganda
KENYA
Wangari Maathai Memorial Park at Mathare Social Justice Center, Mathare, Nairobi
UNITY PARKS in ASIA
co-initiated by communities in the Second Season of the One Home Journey
January to March 2025
SRI LANKA
Sarvodaya Institute for Higher Learning, Bandaragama, Sri Lanka
INDIA
CESCI Center for Experiencing Socio-Cultural lnteraction and Ekta Parishad, Madurai
CORO INDIA, Mumbai
Om Abode, Khandpe, Karjat
NEPAL
LigligKot Heritage Farmhouse, Ligligkot
Lumbini Buddhist University, Lumbini
RRN Rural Reconstruction Nepal, Kathmandu
AOTEAROA / NEW ZEALAND
Nuhaka Kura School, Mahia Peninsula
Unity Park in Egypt at SEKEM
Olive Tree
for SEKEM's Unity Park
Collective Inauguration of the First UNITY PARK on the One Home Journey
at SEKEM Farm, Home for Humanity – Egypt, on 22 APRIL 2024, International Mother Earth Day
Original UNITY PARK
at Home for Humanity's Integral Home Campus in France
The first Unity Park was inaugurated in the community of Hotonnes in Haut Valromey, in the French Jura mountains, between Lyon and Geneva, Switzerland, on the lands of the original Home for Humanity.
At the heart of this Unity Park is also an extraordinary Gaia-Culture art installation, dedicated to Home for Humanity and to Earth healing, gifted by world renowned UNESCO Peace Artist Marko Pogaçnik, Slovenia, and his Lifenet community of artists worldwide.
Unity Park Locations
As the One Home Journey 2024-2030 unfolds,
Unity Parks will spread around the Earth and be featured here.
Write to us and find out more about Unity Parks
and how you can get engaged in this planetary initiative!
Please consider supporting the initiation or expansion of a Unity Park
and make a Gift. Thank you!
