Caring Chronicles

HDI is proud to have participated for the third year in the Taihe Civilizations Forum which was held September 6-12, 2020.  Taihe Institute is an important international organization which, as does HDI, devotes itself to improving dialog among nations and peoples.  This year’s forum was based on the theme of “Science Culture, Future Ethics and Common Values”.  There were four sub-forums on International Relations, Education and Culture, Disruptive Technologies, and Security and Development of the Belt and Road. Because of the current worldwide pandemic this year’s forum was done virtually with participants from around the world discussing topics on virtual platforms.

Next year’s forum will again be held in Beijing, China.

HDI is proud to announce that it has received grants from U.S. Embassy Bahrain and U.S. Embassy Oslo to support culinary diplomacy.

Soul Food Scholar Adrian Miller will present a Virtual African American Thanksgiving Dinner in both the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Kingdom of Norway in November, 2020.  Adrian Miller is an HDI cultural envoy and the author of Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time and The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, From the Washington to the Obamas.

Mr. Miller will also travel to Bahrain and Norway to do on-site demonstrations and lectures once international exchanges resume in 2021

Under the auspices of HDI’s Music Matters program, HDI Celebrity Spokesperson Mary Wilson traveled to Slovenia and Belgium for a week of outreach and performances in honor of Black History Month, February 3-7, 2020. Working with the U.S. Mission to the European Union (USEU) and the U.S. Embassy to Slovenia, Mary Wilson and her six-person band performed at the major concert halls of Maribor, Slovenia and Brussels, Belgium. Miss Wilson also spoke at schools and at the European Parliament on the intersection of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and Motown.

HDI’s Jazz/Hip-Hop Envoy Maya Azucena had been scheduled to be the special guest of U.S. Embassy Baku for International Jazz Day on April 30, 2020. We are all greatly disappointed that the program has been postponed to later in 2020. Until then, Maya wants to give jazz lovers in Azerbaijan and around the world a preview of the upcoming concert

The Humpty Dumpty Institute (HDI) is pleased to announce that as a result of a large donation of medical equipment by the China Construction Bank (CCB) New York Branch we were able arrange for 10,000 protective masks, 2,000 face shields, and 200 infra-red thermometers distributed to community health centers and its frontline workers in Newark and Jersey City on May 11, 2020.

The Board of Directors of the Humpty Dumpty Institute is pleased to announce that Ms. Morgan DeNicola will join the Board as an Associate Director.  HDI Chairman Al Khalafalla said that Ms. DeNicola’s commitment to the work of the Institute has been exemplary.  Ms. DeNicola has served as HDI’s Youth Representative to the United Nations for the last two years and accompanied U.S. Congressional Delegations to Africa and the United Nations.  In February 2017, Ms. DeNicola was a leader of U.S. Congressional Staff Delegation to Malawi.  There she visited the Amitofo Care Centre (ACC), alongside other HDI board members. The level of poverty kicked off a fundraising initiative for Morgan, called the Cosmo Cares Mobile Healthcare Van. This van was donated by Cosmo DeNicola Companies to the ACC and will provide needed medical services to remote villages in Lesotho, Africa. 

The Humpty Dumpty Institute (HDI) hosted its 52nd U.S. Congressional Delegation to the United Nations on November 17, 2017. Three Members of Congress participated in a series of meetings and briefings with senior U.N. officials (see participant list below).

Cosmo DeNicola Companies Program Manager, Morgan DeNicola, will be taking part in the Taihe Global Civilization Forum (TGCF) August 25-27, 2017, hosted by the Taihe Global Institute. The forum, which is taking place in Beijing, will focus on major issues concerning human civilization and harmonious development, explore root causes as well as possible solutions to facilitate inter-civilizational communication and arrive at a sustainable development of common values.

Eye Art International is pleased to announce a dynamic art exhibition at The United Nations Headquarters in New York City.  The exhibition will feature works by contemporary artists from the People’s Republic of China,  Panama, te Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the United States, and many other countries. Eye Art is hoping these artists will help build international dialogue.