Dr Jagdish Gandhi, Founders-Manager & Dr Bharti Gandhi, Founder-Director

We are delighted that CMS Asharfabad is organising Interfaith Harmony Week on the theme, "Sustainable Development through Religious Inclusivity". CMS has been continuing its drive towards Interfaith Harmony by providing multicultural education and inspiring the students to engage with the issues of sustainability in order to protect the future of the world. The key to interfaith harmony lies in education. The world needs sustainable development and this can best be achieved by religious inclusiveness.

Religion and faiths have a powerful hold on the human heart. If the power of faith to inspire and motivate hearts can be tapped for positive causes, it can lead to sustainable development for all. It is, therefore, imperative in today’s ever shrinking world that we foster dialogue among different faiths and religions to enhance mutual understanding, harmony, trust and cooperation amongst people.

We take this opportunity to convey my best wishes to Mrs Trapti Dwivedi, Principal of CMS Asharfabad Campus and her dedicated staff for organizing this event.

With warm wishes for the success of the event.

President & President and Managing Director, CMS

I am extremely happy to know that CMS Asharfabad is organising Interfaith Harmony Week on the theme, "Sustainable Development through Religious Inclusivity". It is my belief that apart from producing academic excellence, it must be the responsibility of schools to help children develop their own perspectives on how to live peacefully and successfully in their communities, countries, and the world. I am filled with pride to say that every single classroom in City Montessori School is a diverse community - with Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, and Baha'i children learning together. Growing up in such an environment helps them understand that despite their religious diversity, human emotion is the same.

This important event will bring together religious leaders, scholars, NGOs, and school teachers to consider how to harness this positive power of faith by promoting interfaith harmony.

I must applaud the passion of the Principal of CMS Asharfabad Campus and her entire team for promoting interfaith understanding among children, teachers, parents, and community stakeholders in India and beyond. I wholeheartedly congratulate the organising team for conceptualizing this wonderful event.

Mr Roshan Gandhi, Chief Executive Officer, City Montessori School

CMS has been continuing its drive towards Interfaith Harmony by providing multicultural education and inspiring the students to engage with the climate crisis and issues of sustainability in order to protect the future of the world.

Amid this pandemic situation, the world needs sustainable development, and this can be achieved through solidarity. The key to interfaith harmony lies in education - a multicultural education that encourages pluralism.

CMS has always believed in opening up a child's mind to respect other religions, bringing up a child in a world that encourages human values like a sense of oneness with others, trust and compassion is the Sustainable solution.

I am delighted to welcome you all to the International Interfaith Harmony Week to be organised from 2nd to 3rd February 2022 at the World Unity Convention Center, Kanpur Road on the theme “Sustainable Development through Religious Inclusivity” which aims at establishing an equilibrium and understanding among various religious groups and communities, and creating awareness in the whole world to realise the noble aim of World Unity.

I take this opportunity to convey my very best wishes to Mrs. Trapti Dwivedi, Principal of CMS Asharfabad Campus, and her dedicated staff for organising this event.

With warm wishes for the success of the event.

Superior Principal & Head Centre for School Improvement

“To build bridges across self proclaimed borders, More than words, may our actions speak louder, For a culture of peace, let us extend our support, Regardless of faiths, let us build a strong rapport.”
— United Nations

Harmony is about co-existence that means live and let live. It is a way forward towards tranquility. It is a condition that suggests peaceful coexistence among practitioners of various religious beliefs.

Recognising the imperative need for dialogue among different faiths and religions to enhance mutual understanding and cooperation among people, the World Interfaith Harmony Week was proclaimed by the United States General Assembly in 2010 from 1 to 7 February as it realizes that religion is a major cultural, social and economic factor in enabling sustainable development through its values and potential for social as well as ecological activism.

The key to interfaith harmony lies in education. Bringing up a child in a world that encourages human values, trust and compassion is the solution to all possible discord. Realizing the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child, we at City Montessori School not only understand but also try to fulfill our responsibility of making our learners respond to the many challenges associated with diversity and reap its various gifts and benefits with the strong belief that, ‘Intimacy requires a profound respect for difference.’

City Montessori School, Asharfabad campus has taken a leap of faith by organizing‘International Interfaith Harmony Week’. The theme of this event will surely give hope to those who understand that ‘Sustainable Development’ can only be pursued in an environment filled with harmony and peace.

My heartiest congratulations to the Principal Asharfabad, Ms Trapti Dwivedi, and her staff for this momentous event. I sincerely hope that their effort make our students realize that;

‘The diversity of the human family should be the cause of love and harmony as it is in the music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.’