URI Stories of Impact

URI Latin America and the Caribbean Cooperation Circles celebrated this year's International Day of Peace with the theme: "Recover to Improve and Create a World of Fairness and Sustainability."

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In India, Greshma Raju, from Jyothirgamaya Interfaith CC, has initiated a project called Ecopeace Teen Cafe, which is a four month education programme reaching 29 high school learners in South India, focusing on community building, environmentalism, peacebuilding and social justice. Read more about the inspiration behind this initiative and Greshma’s learnings through the experience of starting a project like this!

The URI global community celebrates all our Cooperation Circles and individual members who are observing the festivities of Diwali!

“There is no Tourism without conservation, there is no Peace without a Green planet and there is no Sustainability without future generation equality in conservation.” Read about the experiences had as part of the Eco-Arts Initiative Children’s Camp in Rwanda

Members of the CC Haiti Interfaith Peace Initiative developed a camp between July 15 and September 1, 2021 for 300 children from the community.

See how the Cooperation Circles in North India came together to distribute the nutritional supplements in diverse communities.

Young leaders from North America/Multi-Region (Erin Adarve and Vasu Bandhu), Europe (Mirjona Hoxhallari and Emina Frljak), and West Africa (Clement Awanfe Ngueto) represented URI, along with Regional Coordinator for North America Tahil Sharma and member of the URI UN team Audrey Kitagawa, at the G20 Interfaith Forum in Bologna, Italy from Sept 11 - 14th. Read about their experiences here! 

Read Tahil Sharma's account about Young Leaders attending the G20 Interfaith Forum / Youth Interfaith Forum.