Marianne Horling

First, I would like to tell you how I came to know Kanako Hasegawa.

URI Germany was present at the demonstration against racism in Bonn, where approximately 1000 people gathered at the Münster-Market to show their solidarity with their colored brothers and sisters who were claiming their human rights.

Sheikh Bashir Ahmed Dultz has been appointed honorary chairman by the German-Libyan Society and its chairman, Dr. Hussein Karkani.

We celebrated URI Global Trustee Marianne Horling on her 70th birthday.

Members of the URI Cooperation Circle Interkultureller Kreis URI Bonn, as well as school children and others, folded more than 1100 origami cranes in memory of the victims of the A-Bomb having had fallen on Hiroshima in the year 1945.

Marianne Horling of URI Germany shares a story of connection with her fellow URI members in Hiroshima.

On my birthday, I invited my friends for a feast. My guests came from many parts of the world. And we found out: We all were immigrants. 

In early October I traveled from Bonn to Lienz in East-Tirol. After a drive of nine hours – the last three hours crossing the Alps with the mountains of the Hohe Tauern – I came into a real paradise! Lienz (population: 11,600) is situated in a valley surrounded by mountains of about 2,000 m in height at the small river Isel, which flows into the Drau right along the city.

Exploring the theme, “Who is my neighbor?” nearly 30 people met this year in mid-August for six days at the Three-Faiths-Summer School in Ammerdown, England.