URI Stories of Impact

Last spring, the Sulha Peace Project CC held a four-day seminar for 32 young leaders.

Despina Namwembe, the Women’s Initiative Coordinator for Africa, travelled to Kenya as part of URI’s Women’s Initiative, a pilot program launched in March this year.

During the first week of July, URI Korea CC invited youth from all over the world to participate in an interreligious-intercultural youth camp in Seoul, South Korea. 

This year on the last day of July, I turn 60. I remember that this last decade has been full of changes and growth.

This month, URI welcomes CCs from Togo and Djibouti - two African countries that are new to the URI community - thus bringing the number of countries in which URI operates to 86.

Wasatia CC and its founder, Dr. Mohammed Dajani, were recently featured in Haaretz, a widely-read Israeli newspaper.

Recently, the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations hosted their 3rd annual networking lunch on interfaith cooperation for peace. 

Lejla Hasandedic, URI Youth Ambassador, helps design a project to bring together a young population divided by a violent past and differences.

Three members of the URI Cooperation Circle Euro-Asia travelled to Novosibirsk, Russia, to participate in a regional conference to honor the UN’s International Family Day.