UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SERVICE COMMITTEE: Story of Impact: Ineza Umuhoza Grace of LDYC
Ineza Umuhoza Grace, Global Coordinator and co-founder of the Loss and Damage Youth Coalition, first experienced the effects of the climate crisis at an early age when her family home in Rwanda was destroyed due to intensive rainfall and wind.
UUSC: Story of Impact: Ian Zdanowicz of QDEP
Ian Zdanowicz left Poland 14 years ago to escape the homophobia and transphobia in his homeland. “Especially as a trans person and as an immigrant it takes time to rebuild your life in a foreign place and culture,” says Ian. “It can be really scary and very lonely.” His search for community in the United […]
Making a wonderful world on Earth Day and every day
As spring flourishes outside my office window and Earth Day approaches this month, Louis Armstrong’s song “What a Wonderful World” goes through my head. Global Impact celebrates the environment as April’s cause of the month as well. In honor of this month, I’ll share Armstrong’s lyrics that remind me of the ways that Global Impact’s […]
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UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SERVICE COMMITTEE: Kioa Island Community Organization
Located across Buca Bay from mainland Fiji, Kioa Island is resplendent with steep volcanic slopes and brightly wooded mountains. Fishing, handicraft, root farming, and copra processing for coconut oil generate just enough revenue to support the island.
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SERVICE COMMITTEE : Myra Dahgaypaw – US Campaign for Burma
Afraid for her life, Myra Dahgaypaw fled her home in Burma (also known as Myanmar) in 1995. Myra was forced to flee home because of the violence and human rights abuses so commonly experienced by ethnic minorities in Burma. “It was a living nightmare,” she remembers. “I fled with just the clothes on my back.” […]
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SERVICE COMMITTEE: Fighting to End Child Detention
In 2020, UUSC’s collaborative campaign with the UUA, Love Resists, entered its third year funding local projects that build capacity for and mobilize UUs in solidarity with immigrant communities who are already organizing. In November, members of the Emerson UU Congregation in Marietta, Georgia, reached out to UUSC with concerns that a local business was […]
5 things you should know about Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) is guided by a simple phrase: all people have inherent worth, power, and dignity. Since its founding during WWII, UUSC and supporters have actively pursued innovative ways to address some of the most pressing human rights issues of the day —providing support to people confronting oppression, coordinating relief efforts […]
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SERVICE COMMITTEE : Fighting to End Child Detention
In 2020, UUSC’s collaborative campaign with the UUA, Love Resists, entered its third year funding local projects that build capacity for and mobilize UUs in solidarity with immigrant communities who are already organizing. In November, members of the Emerson UU Congregation in Marietta, Georgia, reached out to UUSC with concerns that a local business was […]
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SERVICE COMMITTEE : Creating a Compassionate Response to the Border Crisis
In the fall of 2018, as large groups of asylum-seekers began making their way from Central America to the U.S., the U.S. government sent more than 5,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. UUSC helped create an alternative response of compassion, solidarity, and support for migrant rights. UUSC’s immediate response through the College of Social Justice […]
