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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Helping the victims of flood with our local resources

I have been away in Kot Addu, District Muzaffargarh. We have assisted about 500 families with our own resources. Next with the help of Misereor Germany, we will work on preventive health...

Bethak CC provides food and Eid packages to flood victims

BETHAK-organization, Khanewal has provided food stuff and Eid package to the flood affected victims accommodated Government girls middle school at Khanewal. The Chairman BETHAK organization Mr. Samuel...

Women and children most at risk in flood-hit areas of Pakistan

“Criminal negligence” of government and the super-rich Poor women and children are suffering the most in the flood-affected areas of Pakistan . Starvation, water-borne diseases, lack of...

Medical camps in Rahim Yar Khan District, Pakistan

Action Against Poverty (AAP CC) Multan has started series of medical camps in District Rahim Yar Khan. The first free medical camp was organized in "Bhong" District Rahim Yar Khan, where 470...

Quested Peace and Mercy CCs in the holy month of Ramadan

Since URI reaches the unreached, the URI folks decided to distribute food packages in Al Azraq, a small town located in the central-eastern of Jordan.

Roots CC Distributes Aid to Flood Victims in Pakistan

Roots CC members are actively distributing aid to the displaced victims of the Pakistan floods in the Internally Displaced People's camps in Quetta, Balochistan.

Action Against Poverty opens medical camps in Pakistan

Action Against Poverty (AAP CC) Multan has started series of medical camps in District Rahim Yar Khan, first free medical camp was organized in "Bhong" District Rahim Yar Khan, where 470...

Cooperation Circle in Pakistan provides aid to flood victims

There is massive destruction because of the heavy floods in Pakistan. Action Against Poverty (AAP CC) is responding to this humanitarian crises in Punjab Province.

Blood Donation Camp

We are very proud to inform you that we have organised a "Blood Donation Camp" very successfully on 6th August 2010.

Reflecting and Serving on Hiroshima Day

My oldest son came to me one night 16 years ago and said, “Dad, I’m going to Japan.” He was 16 years old at the time. And I said, “Oh, are you? And who’s paying for it?” He said, “The American Friends Service Committee. I’m going with a group of American teenagers and we’re going to interview survivors.” So he went, and spent the summer in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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