A Web of UnitarianUniversalist Global Organizations

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A Web of UnitarianUniversalist Global
Organizations

• Session 2 Global Literacy Project

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International Council of Unitarians and
Universalists
Sincerely love everything that is good with your
heart,Also love your neighbour as yourself,
submitted by Olufemi Olaniyi
Matimoju First Unitarian Church of Nigeria
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International Council of Unitarians and
Universalists

• Current president lives in Edmonton, Alberta,
  Canada.
• Current executive director lives in
  East Kilbride, Scotland, not far from Glasgow.

• Network of Unitarian, Universalist and Unitarian
  Universalist organizations
• Member groups come from 23 countries

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UU Partner Church Council

• The mission is to foster and support partner
  relationships between North American
  congregations and congregations, schools, and
  agencies in all other countries where partnering
  is sought and welcomed.

• This includes countries where partners are
  already active, such as Romania, Hungary, and the
  Czech Republic, as well as other countries where
  new partnerships are now beginning, such as the
  Philippines, India, and Poland.
• Incorporated in Washington state office in
  Bedford, MA.

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UU Partner Church Council
We will work cooperatively with the international
efforts of the UUA and other international
religious organizations, and we will encourage
and support the UUA in developing and maintaining
a strong international engagement.
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UU United Nations Office

• Promotes the goal of world community with peace,
  liberty and justice for all, as reflected in the
  United Nations Charter.
• Based in New York City, across the street from
  the UN.

• Through targeted education, advocacy and
  outreach, they engage Unitarian Universalists in
  support of international cooperation and the work
  of the United Nations.

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UU United Nations Office Programs
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UU Service Committee

• Advances human rights and social justice around
  the world, partnering with those who confront
  unjust power structures and mobilizing to
  challenge oppressive policies.

• UUSC envisions a world free from oppression and
  injustice, where all can realize their full human
  rights.
• Based in Cambridge, MA.

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UU Service Committee Kenya
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UUA Office of International Resources

• Seeks to support congregations as they respond to
  the call of the Association's Sixth Principle
• "to affirm and promote the goal of
• world community with peace, liberty and
  justice for all."

• The International Office does this by providing
  resources to congregations, and by maintaining
  linkages with and between Unitarian Universalist
  (UU) organizations involved in international
  work.
• Based at the UUA in Boston, MA.

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Project Harvest Hope
Goals through their projects and pilgrimages
To preserve family farming and protect village
life To protect ethnic lands and provide jobs
to young people To inspire and assist other
economic partnerships across Transylvania.
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Project Harvest Hope

• Provides assistance for sustainable rural
  development and the strengthening of civil
  society in the Székelyföld region of Romania.

• Working to protect the Unitarian homelands by
  creating regional interfaith alliances.
• Based in St. Paul, MN.

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UU Holdeen India Program

• Works with organizations of India's most excluded
  and oppressed peoples women dalits, so-called
  "untouchables" who fall outside the caste system
  and the adivasis or tribals who are India's
  indigenous peoples, especially migrant, bonded
  and landless agricultural laborers.

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UU Holdeen India Program

• UUHIP implements their mission to participate
  fully in the social, economic and political life
  of India through grants.
• Grants have been used to start up new ventures
  and groups as well as to expand institutions,
  programs and social movements.
• Based in Washington DC.

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Unitarian Universalist International
Organizations contribute to our Global Village