Created: Apr 25, 2022 08:00 AM Bermuda Is Love was formed in August 2020 by a group of friends eager to make a positive impact in our community. We organise trash clean-ups, blood drives, clothing drives, free clothing giveaways, upcycling events and community gardens. We volunteer at food programmes (Christ Church Warwick and the Cathedral), homeless shelters (Transformational Living Centre, Teen Haven and Home), WindReach, the Coalition for the Protection of Children, and T

Created: May 23, 2022 07:59 AM Every person living in Bermuda deserves to have their basic needs met so that they do not have to worry about survival. Basic needs are things which every person needs to live: water, food, housing, clothing, healthcare, education, a healthy environment. Without such things, a person’s quality of life is severely diminished. Bermuda Is Love’s mission is to promote the idea that providing universal basic needs should be the goal of any advanced s

Created: Jul 13, 2022 07:50 AM “If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” — Lilla Watson It is difficult to ignore the great disparities of income and wealth that exist in the world today. According to the Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report , “the world’s richest 1 per cent, those with more than $1 million, own 45.8 per cent of the world’s wealth”¹. The pandemic

Created: Sep 14, 2022 07:59 AM “We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.” — Mahatma Gandhi Love itself is one o

Created: Jan 16, 2023 07:54 AM What is the purpose of our existence here in Bermuda? What do we want Bermuda and Bermudian life to look like in the year 2023 and beyond? What values do we want our people to hold? What kind of lives do we want our people to live? These are the fundamental questions every Bermudian should be asking themselves. In short, what kind of society do we want to live in? And how should we go about creating it? By asking these questions, we can begin to

Created: Apr 25, 2023 07:59 AM Bermuda Is Love’s philosophy is that we believe everyone has the capacity for goodness. We believe everyone has the natural desire to do good and to be kind. Therefore, if people can be encouraged to be good, selfless and virtuous persons, then they will naturally end up living good, selfless and virtuous lives. However, such lives need to be educated and nurtured. Being good is not what someone is, but rather what someone does. A virtuous perso

It is not uncontroversial to say that poverty is a form of injustice. That those living without their basic needs met are not being treated fairly within our rich and affluent, well-connected society. It is clear to Bermuda Is Love that the great economic and wealth disparity in our society is not only unjust, but that the violence of poverty is harmfully maintained by our unequal social order. The maldistribution of wealth results in a whole range of serious physical and psy

Where man exists in a state of nature, man is free. Man is free because he is not burdened by any political system or by the will of others. He is the commander of his will, as he is able to pursue his own ends — self-determination — on account of his ability to reason and seek out what he wants. However, no man is island, and life in the state of nature is difficult, lonely and burdensome. Thus, man comes together to form civilisation and community to protect himself from th

Safe, secure and affordable housing must be made a human right in law to ensure that the Government is held accountable for addressing homelessness in Bermuda. The right to housing is the economic, social and cultural right to adequate housing and shelter. The right to housing is defined under Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which recognises the right to housing as part of the right to an adequate standard of living: “Everyone has the right to a stand