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Campus for Compassionate Living:
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The Vision
The Humane Education Center The Humane Education Center will be a place of serenity and beauty, in harmony with surrounding nature. It will be a center for learning, especially about horses and donkeys in Israel, but also about humane and environmental issues in general, including critical thinking and conflict resolution. The family of a young woman from California has pledged funds toward the construction of the Center in her honor and to reflect her spirit and values.
The Center will be the site of seminars for teachers and children, lectures, and special events. Values taught at the Center will be reflected in activities carried out throughout the Campus, including the Horse and Donkey Sanctuary. There will be sufficient land to permit nature exploration activities, adjacent to a peaceful, outdoor area, where people can sit, rest, and contemplate nature.
Elements of the Campus We will begin by constructing, at a minimum, the Education Center, barns and feed storage, grazing areas, and fencing surrounding the whole. As funds and space permits, we will add:
Programs of the Campus The primary function of the Campus, to educate children and adults in responsible, compassionate attitudes and behavior toward other living beings, and to provide sanctuary for abused animals, opens up many exciting possibilities to involve the community and network with other organizations. Programs to be carried out at the Campus will include:
Overall Feeling of the Campus Our society suffers from the effects of a lack of balance that is reflected in the dominance of one group over another — the physically strong over the physically weak, rich over poor, adults over children, humans over animals and nature, and especially in poor countries, men over women. Time and again, it has been shown that such imbalances result in disrespect, lack of empathy, and abuse of one group toward another, eventually leading to a deteriorated quality of life for both, and damage to the very fabric of society.
We want people to have the feeling, when they enter the Campus for Compassionate Living, that they are entering a place where we have achieved a balanced, safe relationship between humans, animals, and nature; a place where we have, in a very practical way, made the ideal real.
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