A CITY AT THE CENTER OF GANG VIOLENCE
Finding Strength in The Way to Happiness

The city of Veracruz in the state of Veracruz is home to Mexico’s oldest, largest and historically most significant port. Managing 16 million tons of cargo a year, the port has become a hub for warring drug cartels, who utilize the port and its route in and out of Mexico for drugs and gunrunning, extortion, protection rackets and kidnapping.

Caught in the middle of the cartel war are the citizens, resulting in 35,000 deaths and a crime-filled environment that includes schools where boys as young as 12 are recruited into the cartels as slave laborers and killers.

AN ANCIENT REGION AT THE CENTER OF RELIGIOUS DIVIDES
Finds a Mutual Road to Happiness

In the welter of conflict and divided Palestinian-Israeli control, the turbulent West Bank has lost its Golden Rule. This birthplace of three major religions, none of which teaches a person to kill, is yet a site of seemingly unending violence.

Said a former U.S. Ambassador: “Among Jews and Muslims in Israel and Palestine the Golden Rule has been largely forgotten. The principle that one should not do to others what one would not wish done to oneself had been integral to both faiths.... Ethical voices on both sides exist but they are less and less audible.”

When Palestinian Muslim F.A. Halabi discovered The Way to Happiness and its 21 precepts, he knew that precept 20, “Try to treat others as you would want them to treat you,” was the key to restoring values to his people. Secular in nature, it was the perfect booklet to offer moral guidance to people of any religion.

OFFICIALS CHANGE LIVES WITH
THE WAY TO HAPPINESS

“When I heard about The Way to Happiness ‘Restoring Self Respect’ program, my first thoughts were, ‘Oh no, not another program.’ As a warden for 25 years and working in corrections for 38 years, I’ve seen so many programs come and go. After examining The Way to Happiness materials and 21 precepts they represent, I had to ask myself ‘How could something so simple be so powerful?’ It is not a religious program, but still it presented everything I had learned in Sunday School, vacation bible school, church, my upbringing from my family, and all throughout my career in leadership—the basic foundation of living a good life.

“I SAW MEN STARTING TO CARE ABOUT THE EFFECT THEY HAD ON OTHERS AND BEGINNING TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR SITUATION IN LIFE.... I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT FOR ANY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY.”

THE WAY TO HAPPINESS
TOOL FOR ALL STRATAS

The Way to Happiness offers tailored portfolios and educator kits, because the need for moral values affects every sector of society:

Business Program
The Way to Happiness program for businesses focuses on restoring trust and honesty in the workplace.

Corrections Professional Program
The Way to Happiness restoring self-respect program provides tools for the correctional system.

Educators Program
The Way to Happiness program for schools offers tools for teachers to instill moral values in their students.

OUTREACH: UNITED IN PEACE
but one example of how anyone can reach out with The Way to Happiness

United in Peace is a growing multiethnic, multifaith popular movement that works to unite diverse people to work together to bring peace to inner cities. They use The Way to Happiness with their own custom orange cover. Peace Rides bring together motorcycles and lowriders, traditionally representing warring gangs, to ride together through communities passing out The Way to Happiness and the message of peace.

A COMMON SENSE GUIDE FOR BETTER LIVING

HELPING OTHERS FIND THE WAY TO HAPPINESS

The Way to Happiness Foundation International works to reverse the moral decay of society by restoring trust and honesty through widespread distribution of the 21 precepts. Donations support production and distribution of The Way to Happiness booklet and curriculum material.