URI Stories of Impact

On June 21, the members of CC Quinaroes (a URI member group in Venezuela) celebrated in La Laguna de Urao, a sacred Indigenous site. They celebrated the arrival of the summer solstice for the northern hemisphere.

Read an interview with Julie Krull, founding steward of The Good of the Whole (a URI Multiregion Cooperation Circle), and Sally Mahé, Senior Consultant URI.

Reach out to someone in URI that you don’t know (from a different country), and invite them to respond to the following question.

Find out more about URI’s UNITY Week events and register here!

On the weekend of June 19 to 21, 2021 the celebration of the winter solstice is expected in the south of the continent, so members of CC Coemati (women, children and youth) went to the field to harvest tomatoes and hot peppers or chili. 

Bokaro Peace Circle, a URI member group in Bokaro, JK, India, celebrated World Environment Day 2021 by planting and honoring trees. See photos.

To celebrate World Environmental Day 2021, House of Hilkiah Foundation planted trees. See photos.

Taking care of ecosystems and biodiversity means securing our lives and our livelihoods, and that of many generations yet to come.

Our URI global community is blessed with offerings of prayer from different perspectives and traditions. See prayers from members of the URI community.