World Kindness Day's History

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The World Kindness Movement was responsible for creating World Kindness Day as a day of observation.

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The organization's history dates back to a convention held in Tokyo in 1997

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However it was only in 2019 that Swiss legislation recognised it as an established NGO.

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Because of their commitment to promoting kindness in society, a variety of institutions and...

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   groups from nations such as Australia, Thailand, the United States, and the United Kingdom had gathered at this conference.

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This incident would lead to the founding of the Society Kindness Movement, 

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whose written founding statement stated their "pledge to come together to build a kinder and more compassionate world.

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 They would make it possible for the first World Kindness Day to be launched in 1998 in order to achieve this goal.

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