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Furniture for the GNH Centre in Bhutan

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Furniture for the GNH Centre in Bhutan

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Thimphu, Bhutan

$2,580 USD 21 backers

17% of $15,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

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...your support to bring 'Gross National Happiness' into action is required...

THE ISSSUE

In October 2015 the Gross National Happiness Centre (GNHC) was officially inaugurated in Dewaling/Central Bhutan. However, the GNH Centre currently lacks furniture to welcome larger groups and participants of workshops.

WHO COLLECTS?

Participants of the Right Livelihood Program 2015-2016 would like to support the GNH Centre with a donation to finally equip the new centre. The Right Livelihood Program is hosted by the Schumacher College, Devon (UK) and the Gross National Happiness Centre (Bhutan). In this program 18 participants from around the world gather for a one year journey which aims to align individuals’ livelihoods with a deeper purpose in service of happiness and well-being of people and planet.

The money is collected by an individual on behalf of the program (see contact) and will be directly donated to the GNH Centre.

YOUR DONATION

We would like to ask you to support with your donation the final furnishing of the centre.

Furniture will be produced locally in Bhutan and therefore supports the economy in a rural setting in Bhutan.

THE PURPOSE

Once the centre is fully furnished it is able to welcome larger groups of participants to host programs and workshops for national and international participants. The GNH Centre aims to offer Bhutan and the world a practical, viable and exemplary living model of a sane and sustainable society based on the four pillars of Gross National Happiness.

ABOUT THE BENEFICIARY

The aim of the GNH Centre is to demonstrate in a concrete and practical manner that Gross National Happiness (GNH) – namely, responsible sustainable development – really works. It fulfills a growing need for both Bhutan and the wider global community to understand what GNH means to an individual in daily life, and to show how it can play a key role in bringing about a new model and blueprint for society.

The centre offers transformative learning programmes deeply embedded in GNH principles. It attracts both Bhutanese and international participants who wish to learn and experience how to bring GNH values and practices into their own context, and how to serve their families, neighbours, and country with genuine purpose, compassion, joy, and effectiveness. Its benefit therefore is not only to Bhutan and its citizens, but also to a world seeking a viable alternative to prevailing materialistic and consumerist paradigms.