Health and Social Services

URI Cooperation Circles work to improve the health of people all over the world, giving them the chance to lead meaningful and full lives.

Examples of our work in this Action Area:

A Better Community for All Pakistan organizes free medical care for rural families who can’t afford doctors, distributing medicine and connecting patients with free hospital stays when necessary.
Blantyre CC wanted to restore sanitary conditions to Bangwe township in Southern Malawi. Together, 50 young people removed waste and cleaned pollution so the population could live in healthier surroundings.
Members of URI Brasilia CC in Brazil offered health, hygiene, cultural and citizenship services to the inmates of the SalveaSi - Institution for Treatment of Chemical Dependents, in observance of the National Day to Combat Religious Intolerance.

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Circles of Light 2015 - Reflections by Victor Kazanjian

Circles of Light 2015 - Reflections by Victor Kazanjian: It is such a joy when the URI community gathers, so often in circles, working together for peace among the peoples of the planet.

URI Welcomes 11 New CCs for March 2015

March clearly marks a growth tendency in URI. Having approved the largest group of CCs since conception, we can find the wish to make a difference in society as the common thread.

World Interfaith Harmony Week 2015: Conferences and Educational Activities

Cooperation Circles around the world organized conferences and educational activities in honor of World Interfaith Harmony Week 2015.

World Interfaith Harmony Week 2015: Music, Art, and Interactive Activities

Celebrating World Interfaith Harmony Week 2015, Cooperation Circles worldwide organized gatherings where participants could find common ground in music, art, and interactive activities.

Weekly Shot: Blantyre CC Makes Use of Environmental Seed Grant

Blantyre Cooperation Circle gathered 50 young people to help remove waste throughout a neighboring township during a 2012 clean-up event funded by URI environmental seed grants.

Best NGO Honour Bestowed Upon Society for Welfare of the Handicapped CC

A unique institution in Punjab, India, the school serves 225 handicapped children and is a pioneer in North India in the field of education for children with special needs.

A Noble Beginning in 2015 - PEACE CC extends helping hand to disabled students

It was indeed a noble beginning for PEACE CC this year, as it extended valuable help to handicapped students. The brain behind this was Maitri, the dynamic youth of our CC.

Last month, during our meeting, Maitri Tanna, an active youth member of PEACE CC (Multiregion) came up with an innovative idea of mass collection of old newspapers, old paper boxes and selling them to earn some money and use the money to help two handicapped students attending school. She wanted to begin the New Year with a noble cause. As the old papers goes for recycling in a way this also helps towards environment cause, she said.

Jayanti - PEACE CC member encourages school students to support ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan'

PEACE CC member and environment activist, Sirajuddin. M. Horaginamani encouraged and joined hands with school children to support ‘Clean India Mission’ (Swachh Bharath Abhiyan) at Holy Creseant Educational Society’s Alhuda School situated in KHB Colony of Bijapur City, Karnataka on 25^th November, 2014.

YLP representative Joseph Megwe joins Korea Youth Peace Camp

It’s been three months since I attended the URI youth camp as a youth representative from Africa.

URI Germany, DMLB CC join Sufi community for IDP meal and interfaith prayer

Members of URI Germany and the DMLB CC celebrated International Day of Peace in a gathering with friends of the Dayemi Sufi Community in Dortmund, Germany on September 20, 2014.

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