(MENAFN- QNA) Marking the International Day of Charity, United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today called on people everywhere "to act on the charitable impulse that resides in every human being to start giving and to keep on giving".
"Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition", Ban said in a message for the Day.
The International Day of Charity was proclaimed last year by a UN General Assembly resolution essentially recognizing the role of charity in alleviating human suffering. The Day is observed on 5 September to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work with the poor, sick, orphaned and dying in Calcutta.
"Mother Teresa's life and good works for some of the human family’s poorest and most vulnerable members has been such an enormous inspiration", the Secretary-General said.
Especially in times of intense fiscal and budgetary constraints, charity and acts of kindness, no matter how big or small, make an enormous impact on people’s lives. Charity also contributes greatly in efforts to achieve the anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and implement the ambitious post-2015 development agenda, UN Chief added.
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