Fathers are special. Real struggles in Finland//Ilona_ke 

You are talking about the Kenyan father's day. In Finland it's in November, sunnuntai 10. marraskuuta 2024, Sunday 10th November.

I found the following text about Kenyan father's day; "Father’s Day is not so profit-oriented as in western countries. Here, it is more focused on the family and on simply letting your father know how much you love him. This may be done with a special card, gift or meal, a phone call home or travelling back to your home town to visit. In many ways, Father’s Day is an American holiday that was first conceived and popularised there during the early twentieth century. The cynical view of this holiday is that it was promoted in the US for purely commercial reasons along with the modern Mother’s Day which was also being popularised around the same time." In Finnish we might say "kauppiaiden juhla". Of course businesses use both days for targeted marketing of some goods. It is for-profit for them in that sense. But it's not very excessive and families have adopted their own traditions, which aren't always so consumerist. People in general don't think so much about that materialistic side of these days. They care more about the things that you talked about. One can always give the argument of what difference does a day make within a year. The idea is to use one day especially to remind people of something that should be remembered throughout the year.