About The International Day of Hope

This website is managed by the team at The Shine Hope Company, founded by Kathryn Goetzke, who initially set out on her journey for hope over 20 years ago. You can read that story here. 

She has been passionate about advocating for an International Day of Hope and wrote a draft resolution years ago. You can see her version here. She met with many incredible Ambassadors on her journey, presenting at the UN at a Children’s Mental Health Event. Thankfully, one fateful day, she was introduced to the Permanent Representative of Kiribati to the UN, Ambassador Teburoro Tito.

Ambassador Tito had also been working on a related International Day, so he met with her, discussed how they could incorporate some of her language, update the name to the International Day of Hope, and that started their work together. On March 4th, 2025, the United Nations adopted resolution A/79/.54 for the International Day of Hope.

On July 12th, 2025 the world celebrates the first official International Day of Hope. While plans are now in development for activities, both by the United Nations and by individual entities (including ours), we ask all to join in our mission to ensure all know ‘how’ to hope.