Lesson 1: Peace One Day Story Image 7
Jeremy was so excited; he ran outside to ring his friends and family and tell them the good news. Now all he had to do was to tell the world about Peace Day. Kofi Annan said the UN would help with this and they called lots of newspaper and television reporters and asked them to come to a big meeting in four days’ time.
On the morning of the 11th September 2001, Jeremy and lots of reporters from all over the world were waiting at the UN for Kofi Annan to arrive and announce to the world that there was now a Peace Day on 21st September every year.
But this announcement never happened.
New York City was attacked. It was frightening and confusing for Jeremy. It was very strange that this happened on the same day as Kofi Annan was about to tell the world about a day of peace. Image 8
Jeremy knew it was even more important now to tell the world about Peace Day.
For the rest of that year and into the next year Jeremy spoke to as many people as possible about Peace Day: he made a speech to a crowd at Trafalgar Square in London; he went to a football stadium in Germany; he went to lots of schools. Jeremy and his friends wrote lots more letters asking people to celebrate Peace Day.
Peace Day 21st September 2002 had arrived. There were Peace Day activities in 98 countries of the world and Kofi Annan rang the peace bell in New York. It was a great start for the first ever Peace Day on 21st September.
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