{"id":21025,"date":"2018-07-30T09:39:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T14:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portage.hamakmarketingnumerique.com\/?p=21025"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:16:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:16:45","slug":"the-international-day-of-friendship-is-celebrated-on-july-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/the-international-day-of-friendship-is-celebrated-on-july-30th\/","title":{"rendered":"The International Day of Friendship is Celebrated on July 30th."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p class=\"lead\"><strong>The International Day of Friendship is a UNESCO initiative, which was revived by the United Nations General Assembly in 1997. Established on July 30<sup>th<\/sup>, it defines the culture of peace as a collection of values, attitudes and behaviours, which reflect and favor convenience and sharing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><strong>The objectives of this day<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The United Nations would like, by establishing this as an international day, to demonstrate the importance of friendship in society and the benefits of comradery regarding mutual co-operation and social security. Friendship is a simple but powerful act of offering a hand to those in our entourage that are outside our immediate circle.<\/p>\n<p>The primary objective of this day is to remind us that friendship between people, counties, cultures and between individuals inspires peace and breaks down the barriers between communities.<\/p>\n<p>The Program of Action on a Culture of Peace is set on 8 areas of action:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Foster a culture of peace through education;<\/li>\n<li>Promote sustainable economic and social development;<\/li>\n<li>Promote respect for all human rights;<\/li>\n<li>Ensure equality between men and women;<\/li>\n<li>Foster democratic participation;<\/li>\n<li>Advance understanding, tolerance and solidarity;<\/li>\n<li>Support participatory communication and the free flow of information and knowledge;<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>The importance of friendship in personal development<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The link between two people can be positive, or can be completely negative. To illustrate this point, Ikea lead a study demonstrating the influence of insults and compliments on plants. The world leader in furniture placed 2 plants, for 30 days, in a school in the Middle East. The plants received the same amounts of water, sunlight and fertilizer. The students were asked to record vocal messages of love and encouragement for 1 of the plants, and record critical, hateful and threatening messages for the other plant. After 30 days of conducting the experiment, the results were impressive. The plant receiving the positive, love-filled messages continued to prosper whereas the plant receiving the negative, hate-fueled messages seemed to struggle and wither. How should the results be interpreted for such as an experiment? If criticism influences the development of a mere plant, it must also have an influence on humans (read: <a href=\"\/?p=19621\">I Did Drugs To Be Loved<\/a>).<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Portage and the support of the therapeutic community<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>With respect to the help programs aimed at those suffering from drug addiction, Portage believes in the collective strength of a group and mutual co-operation. Regarding the therapeutic community that was put in place in rehabilitation centers, the residents share their day to day with a group of people facing the same challenges. At Portage, respect is the at the heart of all interventions. The therapeutic community approach focuses on the model of the resident&#8217;s wellbeing, mutual co-operation and support, which can be used throughout their therapy in order to regain the hope of a happy and productive life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/fr\/events\/friendshipday\/background.shtml\">http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/friendshipday\/background.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Day of Friendship is a UNESCO initiative, which was revived by the United Nations General Assembly in 1997. Established on July 30th, it defines the culture of peace as a collection of values, attitudes and behaviours, which reflect and favor convenience and sharing. &nbsp; The objectives of this day The United Nations would&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/the-international-day-of-friendship-is-celebrated-on-july-30th\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read The International Day of Friendship is Celebrated on July 30th.\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47579,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21025\/revisions\/47579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}