The MEI Foundation not only works on the ground to empower individuals, but we also act as a channel for organizations from abroad to access local communities. This is a snapshot of our rendezvous with a representative from the “Way to Happiness Foundation,” based in California. We were able to take them to the poverty ridden villages of Horowpathana, which we had visited earlier to witness the regional water contamination issue.
The Way to Happiness aims to spread the joy of content living through nurturing love, compassion and humanity. In recent years, they have been promoting their well-renown book: “The Way to Happiness: A common sense guide to better living,” which is a book composed of 21 precepts of non-religious moral code of ethics. It is intended to help thriving communities in the world’s most desperate places to read, understand, and inculcate basic moral values in their daily living. They aspire that their simple to follow guide will give people a ray of hope for a better tomorrow than their lives in the past.
The book has been translated in about seventy languages and has been distributed across the globe to schools, civics groups, businesses, and war-stricken, impoverished communities as well.
The MEI Foundation was very excited to support the Way to Happiness Foundation in spreading their message to the people of Anuradhapura. The local people were welcoming of the message and received their personal copies in Sinhala, Tamil and English alike.
To live a sound life with a heart filled with happiness, one must first find harmony and this can only be found in co-existence, togetherness, and brotherhood regardless of race, religion, color, cast or creed.