URI Stories of Impact

The Indigenous North American Lakota community responded to the global threat of COVID-19 with four days of prayer and ceremony.

Sarvodaya Shanti Sena, a URI member group in Sri Lanka, is tackling economic challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic by distributing much-needed food for low-income families.

Today, Saturday March 14, 2020, we should have been celebrating “URI-20-Years” as part of the URI Netherlands Vestijn – Vrijheid, Vrede, Vriendschap (Freedom, Peace, Friendship) Festival.

The workshop aims at providing information about the crimes against ethnic Vietnamese during the Khmer Rouge regime.

Being a group of women with tight relations, they want to share their special talents with each other with the target of creating peace. They want to be a safe and productive place to discuss local and global issues.

Stay at home. It is an act of love for yourself and for your loved ones.

At a time when the human community is being challenged to find unity, as extremists fan the flames of division, and when humanity as a whole has become dangerously alienated from the Earth that sustains us, the COVID19 pandemic and the “social distancing” required has further challenged our sense of unity.

A group of 92 people traveled together through Jordan, Palestine, and Israel to visit sacred religious sites.

This time around with the new pandemic, as an 83-year-old, I putter around wiping doorknobs and watching, hypnotized, the numbers of cases and deaths climb relentlessly.

On 18th February, 2020, UN Chief Antonio Guterres visited Lahore, Pakistan.