"Operation Friendship can do much to help international relationships; it enables young adults of different nationalities to meet in their own surroundings find out the other's point of view, see how he lives, and meet his, or her friends on their own ground. Time and again we find that we are amazingly alike and that the same things make us laugh and weep, grin and groan. The future well-being of Mankind depend on the breaking down of barriers so that we might 'brothers be the world o'er'."
Countess of Mar and Kellie,
founding patron of Operation Friendship