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Pride+Love in Uganda 06: What is our obligation to LGBT Ugandans?

Like the Jews, the LGBT community in Uganda is a global minority, a family, a tribe. When one part of the community is under threat of state and extra-judicial violence as we witnessed here in Uganda, the global LGBT community is called to act. What we do should be directed by the Ugandan LGBT community, but all the LGBT citizens of Uganda we saw, in the hundreds, asked for international support. In proposing to imprison LGBTs, their friends, families, doctors, and teachers, the UN Member State of Uganda threatens to be in violation of multiple treaties. If the anti-homosexuality bill should ...

Become an Envoy

What is a UU-UNO Envoy? An Envoy acts to represents the UU United Nations Office within their local congregation. They connect the congregation to the UU United Nations Office and get important information on current UN activities. They receive information on our program initiatives and then plan events in their congregation to promote the program. Envoys are extremely valuable to the UU United Nations Office because they are the link between the office and the global UU community. If your congregation does not already have an Envoy, consider becoming one. Or better yet, consider forming an Envoy Committee. To join the team, ...

Every Child is Our Child

More than 14 million children under 15 in Africa have lost one or both parents to AIDS. The scope of this human tragedy is overwhelming. What can one person, or one congregation, do? Plenty! We, UU-UNO members, have begun by making these children our priority. As part of UU-UNO mission, Every Child is Our Child Program focuses on children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS and works toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of universal primary education, fighting HIV/AIDS, reducing hunger and poverty, and promoting gender equality. This effort is guided by our partnership with the Queen Mothers Association in the Manya Krobo region of Eastern Ghana. Because ...

Thank you for another great Spring Seminar!

Thank you to everyone who came to this year's Intergenerational Spring Seminar! The Seminar Statement can be viewed here. We'll be posting shortly photos and updates for next year. If you have comments or photos you'd like to share, please send them to springseminar@uu-uno.org and we'll post them soon! In the meantime, stay updated on the work of the UU-UNO Climate Change Task Force by visiting its portal.

UUSC-UUA JustWorks Youth Delegation to Haiti – Bon Voyage!

July 19th, 2011 by Olivia Legan

We all felt the pain from the 2010 Haiti earthquake. While we did not feel the tremors or aftershocks, the photos of starving children stared at us from front pages all over the US. In most natural disasters, we might feel affected but it is easy to remain detached; places like Japan or Thailand feel a world away. Both are over six thousand miles away. Yet, when the 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti, it was close to home. Haiti is only six hundred miles away from Miami. While the cataclysmic earthquake occurred over a year and a half ago, Haitians are still struggling to put their lives back together.

The UUSC-UUA JustWorks Youth Delegation has developed a way for Youth to get involved and help rebuild Haiti. They are taking youth ages 15 to 23 (as well as some adults) to build an eco-village and a sustainable community in Central Plateau, Haiti from August 20 to 27. Participants will construct homes for forty displaced families. They will also instruct citizens on positive, sustainable agriculture habits.

The trip costs four hundred dollars and covers all in-country costs. Participants are to pay for vaccinations and travel to Haiti. The deadline to apply was July 10. We look forward to hearing more about their travels and encourage our Envoys to keep an eye out for similar opportunities for Youth in their congregations.

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