Health and Social Services

URI Cooperation Circles work to improve the health of people all over the world, giving them the chance to lead meaningful and full lives.

Examples of our work in this Action Area:

A Better Community for All Pakistan organizes free medical care for rural families who can’t afford doctors, distributing medicine and connecting patients with free hospital stays when necessary.
Blantyre CC wanted to restore sanitary conditions to Bangwe township in Southern Malawi. Together, 50 young people removed waste and cleaned pollution so the population could live in healthier surroundings.
Members of URI Brasilia CC in Brazil offered health, hygiene, cultural and citizenship services to the inmates of the SalveaSi - Institution for Treatment of Chemical Dependents, in observance of the National Day to Combat Religious Intolerance.

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Veggie boxes for the poor

The Bay Area IYAN (Interfaith Young Adult Network) hosted our first community service project on Saturday, November 12, at the Excelsior Community Food Pantry, located at the Mission Bay Community.

Gay sex and AIDS; religion and terrorism

I have been told repeatedly by large foundations that even though they fund peacebuilding and security initiatives, they will not fund anything to do with religion. For these folks, religion is a taboo subject, no matter what its relationship to peace and security. Each time I hear this, a faint echo from my past arises.

Annual Report of the Bhatta Brick Kiln CC

The Bhatta Bricks Kiln Labourer Welfare Organziation has been working for humanity since becoming a member of URI in 2002, providing schools, health care, labor rights advocacy and other services to...

Aunties - On the Move!

Post #2 from URI-Great Lakes Meeting in Kampala, Uganda.

11 Days, 11 Ways

11 Days of Global Unity starts September 11. Lift your voice, join the chorus.

URI-Africa and local NGOs come together to build better life in Africa

URI's Sally Mahé reflects in a series of posts on the recent URI-Africa regional conference in Kampala, Uganda.

Jordan CCs experience in the middle of desert

On Friday 19 August CCs in Jordan decided to help their families in the South of Jordan, 300 km from Amman, the Capital. They went to a remote area called Al Thagrah, around 30 Km from Maan City. Al...

Jerusalem Peacemakers CC continues bridge building in the Holy Land

In a time of momentous change in the Middle East, the Jerusalem Peacemakers CCcontinues the work to build bridges between religions and peoples in the Holy Land. Inspired by protests for change in Israel and the Arab world, our circle of religious peacebuilders continue to hold the prophetic vision of a shared future in the region. With the recent escalation in southern of Israel and Gaza, its important also to hear the positive stories that dont make the news.

Action for Peace Conference held August 5-12, 2011

Thirty-five participants came together in Baia Mare, Romania, on August 5th for a week-long youth conference on the topic “European Consciousness through Action for Peace.” The youth, most between the ages of 15 and 25, came from Romania, Switzerland, Germany, UK and Hungary.

URI-MENA members observe Ramadan

URI members deliver aid to a remote village outside Amman, Jordan.

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