Shas­tri Boodan

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo has called on Hin­du youths to lead the way when it comes to sav­ing and pre­serv­ing the Earth.

She was at the time de­liv­er­ing the fea­ture ad­dress at Di­vali Na­gar cel­e­bra­tions on Wednes­day night. The Pres­i­dent spoke on Daar­ti Maa­ta (Moth­er Earth), this year’s theme for the Na­gar. She said, “My hope and my prayer are that our Hin­du com­mu­ni­ty in T&T, par­tic­u­lar­ly our young Hin­du men and women will lead the en­tire coun­try and then the en­tire world in join­ing hands and work­ing to­geth­er to en­sure that we’re re­spect­ing and ho­n­our­ing Moth­er Earth.”

Pres­i­dent Kan­ga­loo pledged the sup­port of the Of­fice of the Pres­i­dent to the Na­tion­al Coun­cil for In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) and to the Hin­du com­mu­ni­ty on ed­u­cat­ing all, es­pe­cial­ly youth on the im­por­tance of pre­serv­ing the Earth.

She said “Di­vali Na­gar 2023 with its theme of Daar­ti Maa­ta is, I be­lieve, the per­fect oc­ca­sion for the en­tire com­mu­ni­ty to com­mit to do­ing so.”

She con­tin­ued, “Hu­man­i­ty needs to un­der­stand that the Earth is not just a place for us to live and die, it is the source of our ex­is­tence and it is the promised in­her­i­tance of our young peo­ple. Here in T&T we need to take up the man­tle of our col­lec­tive re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to Moth­er Earth and to the en­vi­ron­ment, not to­mor­row, not ten years from now but to­day.”