URI Stories of Impact

Vikas Pota, founder of Sewa Day, recently visited URI Great Lakes’ office in Kampala, Uganda to present the Sewa Pioneers Award for a series of coordinated voluntary service events.

URI members participate in a peace ritual in Mindanao, Philippines, where Peace Secretary Teresita Quintos Deles lights candles with her granddaughter in February 2011.Explore our Cooperation Circles.

One hundred years after World War I, the Community of Sant`Egidio organized a gathering called “Youth Muslim-Christian Meeting” in Sarajevo.

As our united prayers continue for the peoples of the Central African Republic, Nigeria, and Kenya, we now mourn the lives lost through escalating acts of violence throughout the continent.

OUR HOUSE is creating something NEW for SUMMER 2014.

At the National Youth Leadership Council’s 24th Annual National Service-Learning Conference, Young Leaders Program Coordinator Matthew Youde poses with fellow coordinator Krithika Harish

Protecting and Restoring the Sacred, under the guidance of First Peoples Cultural, Spiritual and Legal Heritage Keepers, held an event at Tillman Chapel at the Church Center for the United Nations.