Children’s moral education is the driving force

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Children’s moral education has been the driving force behind the Anis Foundation, launched on 23 May – the Declaration of the Bab.

Project Manager of the Anis Foundation is Tim Melville, Secretary of the Bahai Council for Wales. He got together with West Berkshire Bahá’ís, brother and sister Shawn Khorassani and Shohreh Fleming, to come up with the idea of the Anis Foundation. The three have known each other since the late 1990s.

The name Anis means ‘companion’ and the initials are derived from Shawn’s children’s names – Anisa, Saba and Naseem.

The Anis Foundation has been created to teach children moral education centred on the Bahá’í principles, which are based on the essential message of unity (http://www.bahai.org/). The Foundation’s mission statement is ‘United in peace and security’ and is based on a teaching from ‘The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh’ (p203) – “The well-being of mankind, its peace and security are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.”

More details can be found at http://www.anis.org.uk/

Bahá’ís launch new foundation to guide children’s moral education

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A new foundation – inspired by the teachings of the Bahá’í Faith (founded more than a century and a half ago) – is being launched on 23 May, one of the most significant days in the Bahá’í calendar.

23 May is the ‘Declaration of the Bab’ – it commemorates the day in 1844 when the Bab (the herald of the Bahá’í Faith) announced in Shiraz, Persia (now Iran), that he was the herald of a new messenger of God. It is one of the nine holy days of the year when work is suspended.

Managed by Tim Melville, who adopted the Bahá’í Faith when he was 15, the Anis Foundation is being launched to teach children moral education and a more spiritual way of living – to bind people and cultures together in their quest for a vision of humanity as one global family.

Tim, who is experienced in voluntary work with children and young people, sees a lot of children who have ‘lost their way’. He said: “Many of these children exhibit signs of a lack of moral education, which makes me very sad.”

More details can be found at http://www.anis.org.uk/