URI Stories of Impact

URI UK CC members and friends welcomed URI Founder and President Bill Swing to London earlier this month.

Pakistani Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights (PCSW&HR) organized a launching ceremony of its project “Economic Empowerment of Women through Vocational, Life Skills, Cultivation training for kitchen gardening and Computer literacy” at Rawalakot on 1^st June 2014. This project is being executed by PCSW&HR with the collaboration of OBOS “The One Body One Spirit Movement” Korea since January 2014 but this project was officially launched on 1^st June 2014. President Azad Government State of Azad Jammu & Kashmir Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan was the chief guest of this project launching and certificate awarding ceremony whereas Mr. Muhammad Ijaz Noori Chairman PCSW&HR presided over the ceremony.

United Religions Initiative (URI) Africa Regional Coordinator Mussie Hailu announced that Ethiopian Olympian and record breaking long distance runner Haile Gebrselassie has accepted an invitation to become a Goodwill Ambassador for URI.

Dr. Sirajuddin. M. Horaginamani, an environmentalist and member of URI’s PEACE CC, organized a series of environmental awareness programmes during World Environment Day...

As URI Executive Director Victor Kazanjian likes to say: Cooperation Circles (CCs) are at the heart of URI.

After a long morning of several interfaith youth meetings in Sarajevo, I joined my fellow URI Global Youth Ambassadors.

“Religion Makes Democracy” was the title of a three-day interfaith meeting of roughly 60 Christians, Muslims, Jews, Humanists and Agnostics of all ages at Nordwalde, Germany's Protestant Youth Education Centre.

In late May, Global Compassion, a non-governmental organization working in humanitarian aid, development, and security based in Cameroon.

A friendly cricket match in Huddersfield, UK, was a prime opportunity to embrace people from all communities through team sports. The focus was on relationship-building and a sporting spirit towards community cohesion.

For four years, URI has run a Global Youth Ambassadors Program to give young people around the world the opportunity to develop as leaders who run their own interfaith projects.