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The object of Global Girmit is the protection, promotion and advancement of knowledge and education on all aspects of Girmit, the lives of the descendants of Indentured workers, and on specific and totality of the environment within which the Girmitiyas have evolved and live. In this regard, the Institute shall, inter alia,

1. Engage in activities which provide for continuity and sustainability in all areas of research, publication, documentation, educational and awareness material development, creation dissemination maintenance and advancement of knowledge through means which are acceptable nationally and internationally to do these;
2. Engage in community outreach, and advancement of the interests and aspirations of the Girmitiya;
3. Focus on ensuring continuing advancement of the collective Girmitiya interests and standards of living and social being, within the bounds of the philosophy outlined below.
4. Maintaining and advancing the fundamental ethos and philosophy of the Institute, which is to keep the memory of the world’s ‘second slavery’ alive, and in doing so, ensure that the world does not create any third and subsequent forms of slavery or enslavement of people or communities. This means that the Institute shall continue to ensure recognition of fullest dignity for people and recognition of human rights and potentials, and that it always stands for independence of people and against any colonization or subjugation or attempt at colonization and subjugation of peoples and cultures, and continue to ensure that no special rights and privileges of groups of people based on racial, religious, caste or other social markers are created which have the potential of oppressing and subjugating people. It must remain an Institute which champions autonomy of people.

Click here for Registration Form for the 2023 Girmit Open Golf Tournament, Suva, Fiji, Saturday 8 April 2023
Girmit Open Golf Tournament, 2023

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