The draft education policy adopted recently for the global educational network of the Montfort Brothers of St. Gabriel has adopted the Earth Charter as one of its important elements. Hence, the Earth Charter will form part of the educational curriculum in hundreds of educational/social institutions in 34 countries, once this policy is finalized, by the end of 2009.
Another important development is the decision taken by the governing body of the Montfort Brothers of St. Gabriel to officially create Montfort Social Institute (MSI) in
MSI will take up a pilot project of introducing an integrated approach to HRE and SDE based on the Earth Charter principles in 23 educational institutions of the Montfort Brothers’ society in two different states in