Virtues Training 2014 - present

The Virtues Project International Association is a global grassroots initiative to inspire the practice of virtues in everyday life, sparking a global revolution of kindness, justice, and integrity in more than 100 countries through facilitators, master facilitators, champions and Virtues Connections.

The Virtues Project empowers individuals to live more authentic meaningful lives, families to raise children in an environment built on compassion and integrity, educators to create safe, caring, and high performing learning communities, and leaders to encourage excellence and ethics in the work place. It has inspired and mobilized people worldwide to commit acts of service and generosity, to heal violence with virtues such as perseverance, kindness, compassion and respect.

The Virtues Project training held in Gaborone has been a resounding success with over 250 people trained from across Botswana from 40 different stakeholder groups, including policy makers, the Botswana Defence Force, Botswana Police, Ministry of Education, other educators, religious leaders, and NGOs, including Child Line Botswana and SOS, Stepping Stones and Masiela Fund. One community leader who attended the training said, “How exciting it can be to do life a little differently: we’ve always valued these virtues- now we’ve been given tools, a methodology to share them”

Thanks to the Botho Compassion Movement’s partnership with Stepping Stones International, 17 girls who head their own child-headed households received the Virtues Project training and learned how to create compassionate families in difficult circumstances.