World kindness day...13/11/2018... ( Archived) (13)

With today being world kindness day what kindness have you shown others, what kindness has been shown to you...have you ever payed it forwards...

I never heard of this
Yes. But I was taught not to speak or brag about it, because then it means nothing.

Nice I until an hour ago...
Interesting about PIF, you're the second person to say that...(something which I was not aware of)...

*nor*.... bloody auto correct...

Oh this is disturbing... a great concept of a "Global Kindness Day", that isn't recognized globally and seems political in origin, but claims not to be.
SMFH... (Redistribution of wealth).
I will post two Wikipedia links (ugh), and I am out of here... to be kind

World Kindness Day is an international observance on 13 November. It was introduced in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement a coalition of nations kindness NGOs. It is observed in many countries, including Canada, Japan, Australia, Nigeria and United Arab Emirates. In 2009, Singapore observed the day for the first time. Italy and India also observed the day.


NGO-ization is a process resulting from neoliberal globalization. It consists of the flourishing of NGOs founded on issue-specific interventions associated with the rising centrality of civil society where NGOs are in charge of social services that used to be fulfilled by the public sector. As a result, some have described this process as an outworking of foreign policy (from countries in the Global North) that is redefining the relationships (in the Global South) between society, the state and external actors.

From a political point of view, NGOs are sometimes referred to as a third sector that has the capacity to balance the power of the state. The broadening of the political configuration suggests a better governance where NGOs are enabling a real "bottom-up democracy" that promotes pluralism and the development of a civil society. Joseph Stiglitz referred to this process as the emergence of a "post-Washington consensus". From an economic point of view, some have argued that NGOs are able to provide social welfare services to the most vulnerable "at lower cost and higher standards of quality than government".
However, many scholars have been very critical towards the process of NGO-ization as the case studies below suggest. Indeed, some argue that the disadvantaged communities that supposedly benefit from the services of NGOs are first and foremost "the products of neoliberal policies expressed in privatization and decentralization of state institutions".

In addition, some scholars have argued that NGOs represent a new kind of dependency on countries from the Global North and stand as a form of neocolonialism towards countries from the Global South.
Similarly, there are on-going debates concerning the actual interests and legitimacy of NGOs considering their links to the states that funded them in the Global North. For this purpose, the social scientist Sangeeta Kamat pointed out
that "NGO's dependence on external funding and compliance with funding agency targets raise doubts about whether their accountability lies with the people or with the funding agencies"

Hi Bod