We are visiting Fgura football field today where young children are attending community training sessions
The Peace Run team of international runners present the Peace run to all the children
Salil Wilson, Director of the Peace Run, tells the children all about the Peace Run and its journey to more than 160 countries.
The children try to guess where Adesh is from. He is from the land of cuckoo clocks and good chocolate. Switzerland.
Suswara is from the country of Premiership football and excellent tea. England.
Natabara comes from a country and a city that has a statue that looks like this, holding a book and a torch. New York City, USA.
Ion from Moldova leads the children in learning the actions for the World Harmony Run song.
The parents join in
Passing the torch from hand to hand
The parents have their chance to hold the torch
Some Erasmus exchange students are present at the ceremony.
Everyone has a chance to run with the torch
Thank you to Larkin Bonnici (second from left) who works for the Ministry of Home Affairs, and runs this training school in his spare time.
Now the runners will run to the plaque that was inaugurated in 1998, dedicating Malta as the first Peace Blossom Nation.
In a small park in Kalkara everyone is gathering for this ceremony.
This is the plaque
The Mayor of Kalkara, Mr Wayne Aquilina, welcomes everyone. He is standing with council members Maria Sultana, Speranza Chircop, and Christopher Bruno, and our friend Larkin Bonnici.
Nripal Eric Petersen recounts his visit to Malta in 1998, when he attended the dedication of Malta as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Blossom Nation.
