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Youth Day, Celebrating Oliver Tambo & Yoga Festival 2017
Youth Day, Celebrating Oliver Tambo & Yoga Festival 2017
Tongaat Hindu Unity Forum is a community-based organization that is celebrating 10 years. Their respected vision is to develop a society that is free of racialism, violence, poverty, inequality and all other forms of prejudices that prevent us from building a cohesive and united nation. They cherish the ideals of the freedom charter and believe that only when the society is truly free from hunger, poverty and inequality can we start to understand and begin our spiritual evolution.
The Swami Vivekananda Arise Awake Fun Run/Walk has brought the entire community together for a day of remembrance, contemplation, introspection, education, empowerment and a whole lot of fun. They have utilized this popular code of sport in galvanizing the community around the important ideas of social cohesion, value and character based education, Ubuntu spirited leadership and working together to build a South Africa as envisioned by the Freedom Charter, And to celebrate the centenary anniversary of one of our countries greatest struggle hero and anti-apartheid icon, Oliver Reginald Tambo.
As part of their bumper celebrations and commemorations they have partnered with a range of organizations to stage one of the biggest celebrations the town has ever experience; The African National Congress, The Ethekwini Municipality,
The Department of Sports and Recreation KZN, The South African Hindu Maha Sabha, Iskcon Tongaat, The Indian Consulate of Durban, and a host of sporting and civil society bodies in Tongaat will all be present.
Unique events for June 16th celebrations are; The flagship Swami Vivekananda Arise Awake Fun Run at 8am with approximately 3000 participants, followed by Youth Day Colour Festival concert featuring Durban's Premier Spiritual Rock Band -"Morning Walk" Complimentary lunch, Medals and T-Shirts will be provided to all participants. The evening launches the Yoga Festival in association with The Indian Consulate of Durban. Dr Shasank Vikram our Consul General will inaugurate the festival. The Art of living will co-ordinate the largest Yoga session in the North Coast with an expected 1008 participants. The evening's star studded entertainment unfolds with the internationally acclaimed KZN youth wind band, a spectacular and vibrant eastern fusion extravaganza by the Indian Consulate and the evening will culminate with a concert by Global Spiritual Hip Hop Icon all the way from the USA
Nimo Patel.
It is symbolic to launch a special project on this historic youth day incorporating the celebration of Oliver Tambo. The Swami Vivekananda Prana Dhaan Yojnaa or Living Lung Project will see the planting of 501 indigenous trees in the community, advocating, Prana meaning life breath and dhaan is a gift offering to our lives.
Please join the celebrations of 10 years of uniting through spirituality, Yoga and promoting the ideals and values of Ubuntu and Vasudevam Kuttam Bakkam (The world is one big family!!!!)