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OUR NAME
It started with a silly little button in a reggae shop in downtown Kyoto. On our first night in port nearly two weeks at sea, my friends and I wander into a Rastafarian's paradise in the middle of Japan. "All People Be Happy" read the tiny button. We all figured they meant to steal Bobby McFerrin's famous line, "Don't Worry, Be Happy." My friend purchased the button and displayed it proudly on his backpack.
Over the course of the journey, almost inexplicably, those four words morphed from a ridiculous slogan to a phrase of enormous significance for me. I came to see that these four words perfectly encapsulated my desire for humanity. As I witnessed magnitudes of poverty which few people have even the capacity to imagine, as I stared at the destruction remnants of Hiroshima and in the War Museum in Vietnam, as I sat and listened to the unbelievable tales of sorrow and lose of the Congolese refugees we met in Tanzania, again and again I wished that all people could just live happily.
Eric Tang, co-founder, 2004
OUR MISSION
AllPeopleBeHappy connects, inspires, and improves the lives of individuals and communities through global learning experiences and sustainable development projects.
OUR FOCUS
We build sustainable projects. We invest in high-impact, low-cost community-driven projects - and the leaders and partnerships that make them possible - through a network of organizations all over the world. To date, we’ve impacted over 1,000,000 people.
We create global experiences. We organize and manage global travel and virtual experiences through a network of organizations all over the world. To date, over 30,000 people have had life-changing volunteer experiences with us.
APPLY FOR PROJECT FUNDING
Funding sustainable projects is one of AllPeopleBeHappy's main focus areas. More information on how to apply for project funding will be available soon.
