Click here to find out more about the UU-UNO's exciting new initiative on CLIMATE CHANGE and ways to preserve the planet.

2010 Intergenerational Spring Seminar - Register!

"A Climate of Change: Head, Heart, and Hands Around the Planet," April 8-10, 2010

To kickoff the UU-UNO's NEW CLIMATE CHANGE INITIATIVE we will be exploring this topic during this year's Spring Seminar in New York City.

Seeking Board of Directors Applications for 2010

Urgent: Haiti Earthquake

Tragedy has hit Haiti and people there need immediate assistance.The UU-UNO is not in a position to help effectively, but the following organizations are. Your contributions would benefit Haitians and be in the spirit of UN and UU values and goals.

UUSC/UUA Joint Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund

https://secure2.convio.net/uusc/site/Donation2?df_id=1720&1720.donation=form1

UNICEF

http://www.supportunicef.org/site/pp.asp?c=9fLEJSOALpE&b=1023561

Enter the Greeley Award Competition

Established by the Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office,this competition is inspired by Rev. Dana McLean Greeley, the firstpresident of the UUA. All Unitarian Universalists are invited to submita sermon (or address) to the Unitarian Universalist United NationsOffice (UU-UNO). The winner will be awarded a cash prize of $500 andhave the opportunity to deliver the sermon or address at the upcoming2010 UUA General Assembly in Minneapolis, MN. The deadline for 2010 submissions is February 1st, 2010.

Click here to read more about the Greeley Award and how to participate!

The UU-UNO visits Every Child is Our Child Project

One of the truly great things that the UU-UNO does is work to empower the Manya Krobo Queen Mother’s Association in Ghana, West Africa, to care for orphans and vulnerable children. In November 2009, Celestine Cox, our Office Coordinator, Rick Jacobsen, a donor and volunteer and I visited this amazing project in Odumase, Ghana where the UU-UNO support education and health care for 135 orphans and vulnerable children and provides health coverage to 119 care giving families who have taken these children into their homes. The UU-UNO provides direct assistance to these children and care givers. The UU-UNO also helps connect our beneficiaries with social services through the District Assembly (local government). We also work with the local rural development bank to provide some of our beneficiaries with micro-finance loans and we are working to send volunteers to help rebuild dilapidated schools and tutor our children.

The efforts and support of UU-UNO Envoy and Members make sure that the Manya Krobo Queen Mothers have the resources they need to help orphan and vulnerable children. There are an estimated 3,000 AIDS orphans in the district and the Queen Mothers currently care for 1,053 with your help in making sure UUs in your congregation know about the UU-UNO and become supporting members.

To find out more about this trip and the UU-UNO's ECOC project, please continue reading here