URI Stories of Impact

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.

Nileyn González is a 26-year-old girl, a member of CC Mukua, who develops an active work for equal rights for the albino population. She is currently part of the municipal servants and works as an administrative officer in the Directorate of Communication and Public Relations of the Mayor's Office of Panama.

Ruth Angamarca, a young member of CC Samay from Ecuador, made a video with a powerful message of reflection on the social problem of violence.

The International Day of Indigenous Women is a commemoration instituted in 1983 during the Second Meeting of Organizations and Movements of America, to focus attention on indigenous women, their history, their situation and their perspectives.

Participants discussed methods for dealing with changes brought by the COVID-19 pandemic and shared examples of positive changes from their lives.

Read the latest issue of the UMANG Newsletter from URI Pakistan.

Global Compassion, a URI member group in Cameroon, has mobilized to provide ongoing aid during the disastrous flooding in Douala and Santchou.

Read news from URI South India and Sri Lanka.