Community Building

Fostering strong, healthy communities is at the core of URI’s work.
Youth for Peace CC's summer school in Bosnia and Herzegovina

URI encourages people to help each other by reaching across religious, ethnic, and cultural lines, creating a culture of respect and safety that fosters peace even during difficult times.

Examples of our work in this Action Area:

  • In Pakistan, the URI MCC Islamabad office works for inter-religious peace by addressing local Muslims' and Christians' joint need for necessities like roads, sewage systems, gas and water
  • In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Youth for Peace CC's summer school brought together young people from different backgrounds to serve their community through volunteering efforts like helping disadvantaged families, painting houses, and repairing old cemeteries
  • After a Helsinki mosque was vandalized, URI members from the URI Multiregion formed an interfaith group to clean it, sending a strong message that they would not allow their community to be divided
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FACIS joined other CC's in comomerating the World Golden Rule Day in Bauchi State, Northern Nigeria

Africa
Community Building
Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue
Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation

The Golden Rule Day event was conducted on Saturday April 5th in the famous palace of the district head of Lere, in Tafawa Balewa local government area of Bauchi State.

Tafawa Balewa local government area was chosen to be the venue of this year’s commemoration because of the intermittent crisis that keeps occurring for 2 decades. The intermittent crisis created a huge vacuum of misunderstanding and religious disharmony between the Muslims and Christians. This led to having a divided community of Christians and Muslims in Tafwa Balewa LGA. Muslims are now afraid to go to Christian dominated areas and vice versa.  

The Local Government Area (LGA) is one the 20 Local Government Areas in Bauchi State and is known to have an estimated population of 278, 674. The people in the area speak seven (7) different languages and comprises of Christians or Muslims.

PROLIFE INTERFAITH KENYA CC LAUNCHES A COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANISATION AS A POWERFUL TOOL IN COMBATING POVERTY.

Africa
Community Building
Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue
Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
Poverty Alleviation and Economic Opportunity
Policy Advocacy
Youth

Today at Mbale town in Vihiga County,Western Kenya,Prolife Interfaith Kenya CC which is growing very fast saw the launch of its Community-Based Organisation (C.B.O) whose main aim shall be to fight corruption and poverty in the society.

"Along this line, this shall help put all faiths in the communities of Vihiga County together and hence establishing solid peace and co-existence",said its Deputy Director Mrs Moreen Avoga.Mrs Avoga is the CC's newly elected Deputy Director.The immediate former Mr Onesmus Keverenge is now the CC's Executive Secretary.

The new CBO is known as:Maisha Kenya CBO.