URI Stories of Impact

Swami Agnivesh passed away this week. Members of the URI community remember his great peacebuilding contributions.

On Thursday, September 10, 2020, the Regional Coordination of Latin America & the Caribbean invited all the Cooperation Circles of the region to a meeting via zoom to bid farewell to the 2016-2020 management of the Global Trustees: Sofía Painiqueo, member of the Aflaiai CC of Chile, Salette Aquino member of the CC Brasilia of Brazil and David Limo member of the CC URI Lima of Peru, whose these four years represented all CCs before the Global Council of URI and in turn welcomed the new elected Trustees for the 2020 period -2024: Salette Aquino, CC Brasilia Francisco Morales, CC Comunidad Cósmica and Rosadelia Quizhpe, CC Samay who assume the post to represent the CCs.

On, Saturday, 21 August 2020, the URI Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region gathered virtually for the 19th session of the URI Cultural Café.

Join us as we launch the report and hear from organizations around the world.

Join URI and other United Nations multi-faith partners in "Faith in the UN: A Global Online Conference Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations and Looking to the Future." 

This newsletter highlights the efforts of North America’s Cooperation Circles, who continue to make positive changes in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Last Friday, September 4, 2020, Global Councilor Sofía Painiqueo, also a primary contact for CC Aflaiai, participated in an interview via live - facebook in commemoration of the International Day of Indigenous Women.

On the International Day of Indigenous Women that is commemorated on September 5, Yelitza Rangel, the first contact of the CC Quinaroes, wanted to pay a tribute to the women of her family, their ancestors, those women who are no longer on this earthly plane and to all women that have left their family and cultural mark on the community.

The newly created, approved on June 11, 2020, CC Guanabara, opens his blog already with the principles of URI and information on how URI works at the level of cooperation circle. In their blog they tell a little of their story about how they started to get together as well as choosing the name of the CC.

On August 30, chicks, balanced and seeds were delivered to the IPA schools of Yaguarón through the Topa Ñembyahyi project, an agreement of the Municipality and the pedagogical and administrative supervision of Yaguarón. This delivery was attended by members of the CC Network of Agrarian Educators of Paraguay whose fundamental task is to promote family agriculture, herding, community development and other agricultural activities among children and young people in their localities.