URI Stories of Impact

The African Centre for Peace Building in Ghana celebrated International Day of Peace this year with a Youth Peace Forum from September 18-20^th.

Young Leaders Program recruits, Anna Sheppard and Ayluonne Tereszkieqicz, share a happy moment.

On Sunday, June 22, Global Compassion CC staff, along with intern Michael Lui, and Ngwatta Primary School Teacher Chemine Ekembong, facilitated a "Kids Have a Dream Workshop" in Ngwatta, Cameroon. Forty-five children ages 9-15 were in attendance and discovered, explored, and developed their dreams for the future. Children also participated in group discussions, exploring the concept and value of having a dream.

Here I am sharing another new initiative in our East India zone. With the help of Ektaan Band Performance Funds, we are inaugurating a new Cooperation Circle (CC) learning exchange program.

In light of the violent conflict that is devastating so many regions of our world, we call to your attention one of our guiding principles.

Children sense things which we have outgrown. It is a kind of empathy that we have lost, a sensitivity that we have given up.

The theme of 2012’s International Day of Peace was “Sustainable Peace for a Sustainable Environment.” And it was in the spirit of this theme that the Environmental Satellite Cooperation Circle