World Humanitarian Day 2022: All You Need To Know About

World Humanitarian Day is a worldwide festival of individuals helping individuals. The United Nations General Assembly designated it as a major aspect of a Swedish-supported GA Resolution A/63/L.49 on the Strengthening of the Coordination of Emergency Assistance of the United Nations. Therefore, it was set as 19 August.

Manav Subodh, Founder of 1M1B (a company where over 10 future leaders under the age of 17 years, have won the prestigious Diana Award for their humanitarian work in the last few years) said, “Today, humanitarian, or social sector work is seen as a weekend project, or a volunteering activity required to fulfil course work. There is no or limited focus on creating real impact for real people and real challenges. Youth have the power to positively change the world. For creating real impact at scale and unleashing collective youth power, we need to make humanitarian work mainstream. 1M1B is working in this direction and creating future leaders in humanitarian work."

"Creating real impact for people and the planet should become a common discussion across various programs in schools and universities. AI for Good, Coding for Change, Metaverse for equality and inclusion, green technologies for a better planet, Human centered design and science are projects that can be introduced in the regular curriculum. The National Education Policy (NEP 2020) opens this opportunity through project-based learning. Being human and creating social impact should not be independent topics, these are ways to conduct yourself as we live, learn, teach, and play. Isn't creating social impact and human-centered leaders the core idea behind education anyways?”, he adds.

Background

The assignment of 19 August as World Humanitarian Day is the result of the persevering endeavors of the Sérgio Vieira de Mello Foundation. As well as, his family working intimately with the Ambassadors of France, Switzerland, Japan and Brazil in both Geneva and New York to table and guide the draft resolution through the General Assembly.

The Sérgio Vieira de Mello Foundation is focused on working intimately with all governments, the United Nations, International Organisations and Non-Governmental Organisations to give the day an important recognition every year. On 19 August 2009 was recognised as World Humanitarian Day.

Celebration

World Humanitarian Day is a day devoted to humanitarian people around the world, just as to build open conception of concerned help-exercises. The day plans to respect helpful laborers who have lost their lives or harmed themselves over the span of their work, and to recognise the continuous work of compassionate staff around the world.

Numerous people, groups and associations allocate subjection and data material as an attempt to expand the significance of humanitarian people. Furthermore, some attempt to address the press to help spread these key messages of World Humanitarian Day, while different gatherings create open occasions worldwide that include compassionate work.

Theme

The theme of WHD this year is "It Takes A Village". There is a saying that, 'It takes a village to raise a child.' Similarly, it takes a village to support a person in a humanitarian crisis. With record-high humanitarian needs around the world, this year’s World Humanitarian Day (WHD) builds on this metaphor of collective endeavour to grow global appreciation of humanitarian work

Whenever and wherever people are in need, there are others who help them. They are the affected people themselves – always first to respond when disaster strikes – and a global community that supports them as they recover. Far from the spotlight and out of the headlines, they come together to ease suffering and bring hope.

The 2022 WHD campaign shines a light on the thousands of volunteers, professionals and crisis-affected people who deliver urgent health care, shelter, food, protection, water and much more.