CLEWO commemorates International day of Happiness in Yaounde

Cameroon joins the world in commemorating the United Nations Happiness Day today, March 20, 2015.

It is the third International Day of Happiness to be commemorated. The Day recognises the relevance of happiness and wellbeing as universal goals and aspirations in the lives of human beings around the world and the importance of their recognition in public policy objectives.

To commemorate the day in Yaounde, an NGO, Cameroon Leading Women Organisation (CLEWO) will organise a fun-filled event of 'Balloon Release' during which kids from “Les Maximes Prestige” Nursery and Primary School, Etoug-Ebe and Oxford Secondary School Biscuterie will write short messages, attach to balloons and release in the air hoping that someone will pick it up, read and be amusedat at midday.

When instituting the day some years back, the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon while speaking at a high-level meeting on Happiness and Well-being said “the world needs a new economic paradigm that recognises the parity between the three pillars of sustainable development.

Social, economic and environmental well-being are indivisible. Together they define gross global happiness.”

In a press release, CLEWO members say the campaign is based on identifying, bringing out and encouraging the little and seemingly insignificant things that make life pleasurable and people happy.

The Balloon Release Ceremony is the final phase of a two-week online campaign launched by CLEWO during which almost all angles on the topic “Happiness” were explored and over 3,000 internet users where edified on ways to be happy.