WIN URI (Women’s Interfaith Network of the United Religions Initiative)Purpose: To provide an interactive global network for women’s projects to be realized locally and globally. Description of activities: WIN URI was founded at the URI Global Council Meeting in May 2006, held at the Vallambrosa Retreat Center in Menlo Park, CA, USA. Rachel Watcher agreed to create a webpage for the Multi Region webpage and Rachel and P. K. Mc Cary offered to establish an e- list for the membership. One of our first service projects was to donate funds to help support services coordinated by two of our members, Joyce Ng´oma and Shakun Vaswani. Joyce is leading a series of visitations to women prisoners of different faiths in Malawi, to assist the women with hygiene, mental health and education. This project inspired our members to agree to research the situation of women prisoners in our own countries, with a view to identifying interfaith service opportunities. Shakun´s project provides small loans to Christian and Muslim women in the Philippines, to help them star individual handicrafts business.
Our WIN URI members come from the US, Uganda, Israel, Ethiopia, Argentina, Malawi, the Philipines, India, Jordan, Iran. Faith traditions are:
Additional Contacts: Elana Rozenman Monica Willard |
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