Gesellschaft | Stiftungen, 13.11.2025

Home for Humanity’s ONE HOME JOURNEY

Earth Citizens Rising for Planetary Peace and Wellbeing

The One Home Journey, a transformative Planetary Journey, completes 20 countries on all continents in its first year and brings Unity, Regeneration and Hope for Our Shared Future on Earth "How can we transform our divided and endangered world into a regenerative, inclusive home for the indivisible family of life on Earth?” This is the central question guiding the One Home Journey, described by UNToday as "A Planetary Journey to the Rescue of Agenda 2030”. This seven-year planetary journey (2024 to 2030) to every country on Earth, has the explicit purpose of supporting and accelerating a future of peace and wellbeing for all.

Orphaned Refugee Children at New Talent for the Best Future School, founded by orphaned refugee youth, Uganda. © Home for Humanity

The Journey has just completed its first year, covering 20 countries across all world regions, and directly impacting over 11,000 lives. This epic journey tells a new story of humanity, across all borders, innovating pathways from local crises and global breakdown to human flourishing and planetary regeneration, despite all odds.

A Vision for Seven Generations: The One Home Journey (2024–2030)

The Gandharva and Dalit Women’s Cultural Organization, Nepal. © Home for Humanity

Launched on Mother Earth Day, April 22, 2024, the One Home Journey: 7 Years for 7 Generations is an unprecedented worldwide expedition led by peace artist-activist Dr. Rama Mani and integral development educator-author-activist Professor Alexander Schieffer, co-founders of the Home for Humanity movement.

"Home” is the active and accessible metaphor underlying the One Home Journey in this time of growing homelessness, hopelessness and helplessness. As Earth Citizens, people reclaim their agency to care, individually and collectively, for peace and wellbeing on three interconnected levels: the personal "inner home, the community-based "local home” and the planetary "Earth home”.

The One Home Journey is rooted in a gift economy, outside of conventional fundraising structures. It thrives through mutual generosity, hospitality and shared abundance, operating ecologically and at minimum cost. Ground-breaking grassroots organisations recognised as ‘Homes for Humanity’ across all continents host the One Home Journey’s programmes in each country. Additionally, about 20 global civil society organisations partner with the One Home Journey.

An Extraordinary First Year: 20 Countries, 4 World Regions, 1 Planetary Purpose

In its first year from April 2024 to August 2025, the One Home Journey worked in 20 countries across five continents: Egypt, Bhutan, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Lesotho, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, New Zealand/Aotearoa, Australia, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, USA, Morocco, Turkey and France. The duo, Alexander and Rama, travelled "home to home”, championing transformative initiatives, connecting changemakers, and mentoring future-builders into engaged Earth Citizenship.

At every stop, Alexander and Rama lived in the homes of local partners, sharing daily life, both learning from and supporting diverse communities — from urban slums to Indigenous villages, from refugee camps to ecovillages, from universities to enterprises.

Among the Achievements of the First Year are:

"Homes for Humanity laureates” - Role Models for our Future: 40 pioneering grassroots organisations working holistically across diverse sectors were identified, championed and bestowed with the "Home for Humanity Award” to honour their transformative real-life solutions to local-global challenges, and their positive impact on human, community and planetary wellbeing.
Children’s Dreams for our Future: 930 children, in 15 inspiring grassroots schools, orphanages and children’s organisations, participated in creative workshops, and painted and expressed their dreams for our shared future - a timely wake up call to humanity to change course.
Indigenous and Perennial Wisdom to Care for the Earth: 25 Indigenous Elders shared their wisdom on living in harmony with all life on Earth; 28 Indigenous communities and/or families hosted us and shared their way of life.
Youth for the Future and Women for the Earth: 970 youth and 445 women, primarily from marginalized and crisis-affected backgrounds, were mentored in transformative workshops to find their purpose and fulfill their potential as regenerative leaders and future builders serving their communities and the Earth.
Unity Gardens representing peace between all cultures and harmony with nature: 26 Unity Gardens were inaugurated jointly by local communities, with over 7,000 people participating to plant Indigenous trees and to seed their wishes and commitments for a future of unity in diversity.
"Earth Agoras”: 18 hybrid online-onsite ‘Agoras’ were hosted to highlight the unique cultural wisdom and innovations of each country for our shared future, to connect local and global Earth citizens and changemakers, and experience a collective sense of planetary belonging in these ‘Earth family’ country calls.

The 1st year of the One Home Journey is vividly captured in this short film "Our One Home”.

As the Co-Founders expressed it, "Well beyond numbers, the true impact of the One Home Journey is the unstoppable force of an ever-growing planetary family of humanity caring for each other and the Earth our Common Home”.

What Eminent and Emerging World Leaders have said on the One Home Journey

Makadzi Mphatelini Makaulule, an Indigenous Venda Elder of South Africa, and founder of the Dzomo la Mupo (Voice of Nature) Movement. © Home for Humanity

"When you bring people in contact with each other, and break down the barriers of difference and otherness, as you are doing on this One Home Journey, then we can have more hope for the future of humanity."

Hon. Prof. Gareth Evans, former Foreign Minister of Australia, former President of International Crisis Group who devoted his life to preventing genocides and mass atrocities (Australia)

"This One Home Journey is very valuable for us as local changemakers as it validates us and connects us with a huge planetary network of changemakers around the world, all working for unity and peace."

Thais Corral, Co-Chair of the UN Decade for Ecosystem Regeneration and founder of SINAL (Brazil)

"While we are working for peace and prosperity locally, Home for Humanity and the One Home Journey are working for peace globally, and this partnership is very important for us."

Dr. Rajagopal, the living Gandhi of India, laureate of the Niwano Peace Prize and Founder of Ekta Parishad, India's largest social justice movement

(India)

Why This Matters Now: Earth Citizens rising up, no matter what!

In this time of unprecedented global breakdown, political divisions, economic hardship, and climate crises that are threatening life on Earth, the One Home Journey has fostered participatory Earth Citizenship, beyond national borders, and across cultural, social and economic barriers, to protect and regenerate life on our home planet.

The One Home Journey has concretely shown how every Earth Citizen can play a pivotal role in transforming our divided world right now, by championing innovative initiatives led by crisis-affected youth, women, Indigenous communities and other marginalised groups, who have overcome all odds to shape a better future for all.

The abiding spirit of interconnectedness and belonging to a shared family of life across the astonishing diversity of communities the One Home journey visited and worked with, gives us a timely reminder that humanity’s future, in this perilous time, lies in finding unity — with ourselves, with each other, and with the Earth.

The One Home Journey is a gift — and an open invitation. Individuals, organisations, and communities are invited to join this unfolding movement as it continues country by country until 2030, co-creating a regenerative, peaceful future of wellbeing for all life.

A Film to Inspire Global Action

To mark the end of Year One, the One Home Journey is releasing an inspiring short film titled "Our One Home: Humanity’s Epic Journey for our One Home Earth”, launching globally in August 2025.

Watch the 15 minute Short Film:

https://youtu.be/vxI3HyzjtdE?si=7-PGNiJkQvUNuyfn

Professor Alexander Schieffer is an integral philosopher, academic activist, passionate and transformative educator, and poet. He is Co-Founder of Home for Humanity movement for planetary regeneration and Co-Initiator of the One Home Journey 2024-2030 – 7 Years for 7 Generations.

Dr Rama Mani is a transformative performing artist, peacebuilder and justice activist. She is the Co-Founder of the Home for Humanity movement and, Co-Initiator of the One Home Journey 2024-2030 – 7 Years for 7 Generations, with her husband, Prof. Alexander Schieffer. She founded the ground-breaking artform and methodology "Theatre of Transformation”, based on her 30+ years of experience in crisis transformation worldwide.

Kontakt: Home for Humanity, Prof. Alexander Schieffer & Dr. Rama Mani | welcome@HomeforHumanity.Earth | www.homeforhumanity.earth/