WTCDC Launches Diplomatic Messages of Hope

The World Trade Center, Washington, D.C. (Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center) launched a campaign called “Diplomatic Messages of Hope” which has created quite a buzz. This campaign offers embassies, Washington DC’s diplomatic corps a virtual platform to share words of encouragement, hope and inspiration during the coronavirus pandemic.

Since its debut in April, envoys from over 50 embassies ranging from Afghanistan to Latvia to Venezuela have sent in videos featuring uplifting anecdotes, details on how their countries are coping with the pandemic, words of advice and other positive messages as a break from the daily onslaught of grim headlines and statistics with which we’ve become all too familiar.

The videos — which are uploaded to the Center’s YouTube channel on a rolling basis — are a reminder that we remain connected, even in our new contactless world.
“Diplomatic Messages of Hope is based on the belief that we as a community are stronger if we feel we are all in this together,” said Andrew Gelfuso, director of World Trade Center Washington, DC at RRB/ITC. “The stories submitted by the embassies ranged from music, poetry and visual clips of their country — yet, underneath each message, was the universal theme that ‘we are not alone.’”

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