URI Stories of Impact

As the URI 20th anniversary began, the WIN URI CC (Women's Interfaith Network URI Cooperation Circle, or member group) held our anniversary celebration on Zoom.

Marianne Horling, member of URI Deutschland, and Jennifer Taj, member of URI Golden Star CC Pakistan, join demonstrators in Bonn, Germany to protest racism.

In response to COVID-19, Cooperation Circles in East India, Bangladesh and Nepal have provided support through relief services. 

In response to the food security crisis created as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown, USPP and URI communities are working together to provide families with food parcels and protective masks each week. 

Parliament of the People CC, in Schaumburg, South Africa have been distributing food hampers and delivering them door to door to families who are struggling for food.

On July 9th, 2020, the members of the CC Fraternity Interspiritual held a virtual meeting with Councilors from Guadalajara, Mexico City, San Luis Potosí, El Salvador and the United States to organize new digital activities that allow them to live in intercultural and interreligious harmony in means of physical distancing.

Interfaith prayers are offered for the end of COVID-19, and for the safety of the whole world.

Iftekhar Hai is an interfaith bridge-building pioneer. Before most people saw the need for bridge-building among people of different religious faiths, Iftekhar was already showing the way.

URI Germany was present at the demonstration against racism in Bonn, where approximately 1000 people gathered at the Münster-Market to show their solidarity with their colored brothers and sisters who were claiming their human rights.

AK Kumar, a URI member of Prayas Juvenile Aid Centre, reflects on his experience of working with children during quarantine rather than staying home.