URI Stories of Impact

A group of students gather by the Yamuna River to remove hazardous plastics and other waste to restore the ecology of the river

Water Protectors of Southern Australia gather to pray and act for the future of the threatened Murray River. 

Buddha Day celebrations in Kampot provence, Cambodia, mean planting a forests, brining multi-sector partners together and affirming their commitments to managing a healthy ecosystem. 

Actually, more like Earth Week. Over the course of a week, this Cooperation Circle brought together 100 children to clean up a sacred river. 

Let's question how we teach children about necessity and ownership by first looking at ourselves as the model. Are we ready to transition to cultures of reduced consumption and sharing? 

Dr. Erick Gbodossou from Uganda asks the Indigenous Network of URI to consider our responsibility in recognizing the poor condition of the living Earth. 

During one of the darkest moments in United States history, a group of individuals decided to turn chaos and fear into understanding and the brother/sisterhood of humankind. 

Rio Inter-Religious Movement (MIR), a Cooperation Circle in Rio de Jeneiro shares with us prayer for the earth sung in Portuguese. 

Members of the URI Family host a women's sweat lodge in honor of Earth and the passage of loved one, Grandmother Janet Windwalker.