Bonds of friendships in neighbourhoods

IN URBAN neighbourhoods, often people who live close together do not necessarily know each other. Building bridges and forming friendships between neighbours can have a profound effect on our daily lives.

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Bahá'í communities around the world organise community-building activities. For example, parents in a neighbourhood may meet regularly to consult on the moral, spiritual, and intellectual development of their children. Such an activity also has great impact in terms of strengthening the bonds of friendship in the neighbourhoods.

Regarding the importance of moral and spiritual education for our children, the Universal House of Justice, the international governing council of the Bahá'í Faith, says: "Our children need to be nurtured spiritually... They should not be left to drift in a world so laden with moral dangers", and that "Children are the most precious treasure a community can possess, for in them are the promise and guarantee of the future. They bear the seeds of the character of future society which is largely shaped by what the adults constituting the community do or fail to do with respect to children. They are a trust no community can neglect with impunity".