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Imagine a new idea as vital as democracy. Now imagine helping it spread quickly throughout the world! Child Honouring is one such idea, an idea whose time has come. We invite you to be a part of the global movement that views honouring children as the best way to create sustainable, peacemaking societies.  Hide

Nelson Mandela, The Dalai Lama, Graca Machel are among the growing chorus of luminaries calling for a world fit for children.

The Centre for Child Honouring – on Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada – is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing Child Honouring as a universal ethic, an organizing principle for societal transformation.

Child Honouring is a unique social change revolution, one with the child at its heart. It is a positive vision that stresses “the primacy of early years” as key to activating the powerful potential of our species.

Supporting the Earth Charter and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, A Covenant for Honouring Children is a poetic declaration of our duty respect children, “to honour their caring ideals as the heart of being human”.

The Child Honouring principles offer a guide for living as conscious beings. They constitute the basis for a multi-faith consensus on societal renewal.

At this critical point in human history, we invite you to join the Centre’s work to co-create a vast change in the human paradigm.

 Founder

He is known to millions simply as Raffi: a renowned Canadian songwriter and performer, author, ecology advocate and entrepreneur, once called “the most popular children’s entertainer in the western world” (Washington Post).

Spoofed by the Simpsons, featured in a NY Times editorial cartoon, Raffi’s career was built on the core value of respect for the child as a whole person. His CDs, books and videos have sold over 15 million copies in Canada and the US. A generation saw him perform Down by the Bay and his signature song, Baby Beluga. “Beluga grads” often tell him that they are now raising their own children with his music.

In his three-decade career, Raffi has refused all commercial endorsement offers, and Troubadour Music, his own triple-bottom-line company, has never directly advertised or marketed to children. He is a passionate advocate for a child’s right to live free of commercial exploitation.

What We Do

Mission

THE CENTRE FOR CHILD HONOURING is a communications hub and training ground for a global awareness and education campaign.

We advance Child Honouring as a universal ethic, an essential code of conduct for all to embrace.

Child Honouring is a unifying vision by which societies can re-order their priorities- a central organizing principle for sustainable, peace-making cultures.

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The Centre for Child Honouring—on Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada—is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to advancing Child Honouring as a universal ethic, an organizing principle for societal transformation.

Child Honouring is a unique social change revolution, one with the child at its heart. It is a positive vision that stresses “the primacy of early years” as key to activating the powerful potential of our species.

With local programs as well as national and international partners, our work is aligned with the UN Convention On the Rights Of The Child and with the Earth Charter: co-creating a world fit for children and, thus, sustainable for all.

Respecting Earth and Child, Child Honouring is an integrated vision for simultaneously restoring our planet and building community. The heart of this vision is expressed in Raffi’s poetic Covenant For Honouring Children and its 9 Principles.

Turn This World Around
(A Song for Nelson Mandela)

In this video version of the Covenant, the recorded voices you’ll hear besides Raffi’s are those of Jane Goodall, the Dalai Lama, Jetsun Pema (the Dalai Lama’s sister) and a youth from the Tibetan Children’s Village in Dharamsala, India.

Visit the Centre for Child Honouring website at www.childhonouring.org