COMMUNITY BENEFITS
Envisaged and Achieved Benefits of
CICCETSS and Miss Commonwealth Pageant
to Countries and Citizens
Benefits for Commonwealth nations:-
1 All nations will gain a unique
centre (the CITEC) for investment, trade, training, education, and cultural
exhibition.
2. Local cultures will be given increased global exposure, and be better
regarded and valued by the citizens and the rest of the world.
3. Increased global tourist interest in each nation’s culture and heritage
will lead to increased revenue from tourism.
4. Local textiles, fashions, and arts and crafts will influence the
development of allied industries locally and abroad (with increased foreign
exchange capacity, as an added community benefit).
5. National costumes and designers will enjoy global publicity and
appreciation, in addition to opportunities to gain Best Fashion and Best
Designer Merit Awards in respect of costume designs for Miss Teen, Miss, and
Mrs Commonwealth.
6. Each nation will enjoy the Organisation’s contribution towards
environmental protection.
7. Opportunities for international volunteer educational exchange programmes
will result in increased educational and knowledge gains for each nation.
8. Participation in Miss Commonwealth Organisation Volunteer programme, with
substantial community benefits, economically, sociologically, culturally,
and environmentally.
9. The Organisation’s contributions towards national scientific research
programmes will enhance the progress of scientific developments in each
nation.
10. Increased
spirituality and enlightenment of each nation's people
11. Greater international peace between nations.
Benefits to the citizens:-
1.
Gain of more knowledge about their own and other countries’ cultures and
cultural heritage.
2.
Opportunity to interact socially and
economically with people in other countries, and to make new friends,
globally.
3. Gain of increased access to education and training, especially of young and
older women, and mothers.
4.
Increased help for people with physical and
mental disabilities.
5. A wide range of international volunteering opportunities to take
advantage of.
6. Privileged access to Miss Commonwealth Pageant’s recreational and
educational facilities in all Commonwealth member-states.
7. Opportunity to contribute material to, and gain cultural, educational,
and economic fulfilment from, Miss Commonwealth Television and Radio.
Other Community
Benefits:-
The
CICCETSS brings many community benefits, including its following
priorities:-
·
Its
influential image credibly reflects, and promotes the Ideals and the
continuous re-invigoration of, the Commonwealth.
·
It promotes
cultural awareness, education, exchange, understanding, unity and
excellence.
·
It promotes
and influences increased community charitableness and exercise of inner beauty.
·
It promotes
the use of Miss Commonwealth as a community empowerment platform for
the economic, social and cultural self-development of Commonwealth ladies,
and for their transformation into official and productive national and
international Cultural and Charity Ambassadors, who function as
philanthropic role models and vehicles for the promotion of ‘Quality
of Life’ improvement activities at home and abroad.
·
It
encourages and facilitates the joint participation of Cultural and Charity
Ambassadors of all age groups and cultural backgrounds across
the Commonwealth in the promotion of the common good causes which comprise
the pageant’s main aims and objectives, namely, cultural awareness,
family values, good parenthood, children’s welfare, health, education,
poverty eradication, sport, international volunteering, community
charitableness, tourism, environmental protection, and fundraising for
registered charitable organisations and humanitarian and environmental
projects, etc.
·
It promotes
increased social and economic development and participation of
women which represents an invaluable benefit to the global economy.
·
It promotes
increased international volunteering through the annual awards of the
International Voluntary Humanitarian and Environmental Services (IVHES)
Awards to nominated community champions for the recognition and promotion of
commendable voluntary endeavour. (Proud previous recipients of the awards
include the honourable Dr Nelson Mandela, etc).
·
It serves
as an opportunity for the international community to hear, and be positively
influenced by, Commonwealth Cultural and Charity Ambassadors’ personal
accounts of their individual contributions to global humanitarian
and environmental welfare.
·
It helps
small and large local, national and international charities and ecologically
reputable organisations to raise wider awareness of their existence and
contributions to Quality of Life improvement.
·
It provides
sponsorship opportunities (with associated commercial sponsor’s
benefits and rewards) which avail businesses a chance to increase their
profile in the international community, this including increased economically rewarding exposure in the Commonwealth, and to fulfil their
corporate social responsibility obligations.
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