Service Programs
To cultivate the spirit of one family under God, UPF offers disaster relief and organizes service projects such as caring for public spaces, supporting access to education, promoting good health, and providing medical supplies.
- Written by: UPF - Russia
UPF volunteers organized projects in June 2010 in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg centered around creating murals, researching genealogy, horseback riding and dart competitions.
- Written by: UPF - Albania
Tirana, Albania - UPF-Albania joined the National Institute for the Integration of Albanian Orphans in a number of events to draw national attention to the needs of orphans. The occasion was the “Award of Gratitude” to the Institute on May 19 by the president of Albania, Bamir Topi, for its work.
- Written by: UPF - India
New Delhi, India - As part of its Adopt-a-Monument cleaning campaign, young volunteers with UPF-India assembled on May 8, 2010, at the Qutab Minaret in New Delhi to pick up trash.
- Written by: UPF - Russia
“Think of others by helping them” was the motto of the UPF volunteers who participated in the All-Russia action “Springtime Week of Goodness” in April. Young activists organized activities in Moscow and the Moscow area, St. Petersburg, and Vladimir.
- Written by: Entela Mustafaj, UPF-Albania
Pogradec, Albania - The southern shore of Ohrid Lake, a Unesco World Heritage Site, is a bit cleaner thanks to an April 27, 2010, project organized by UPF-Korca, the local government, the Department of Education, and an NGO that recycles plastic garbage.
- Written by: Robin Marsh, Universal Peace Federation-UK
London, UK - 'Globalisation has impoverished resource-rich developing African nations' was a recurring theme during an early Africa Day 2010 event to coincide with the UK election campaign.
- Written by: Fabio Perez, Hisao Lee Academy of Martial Arts, Panama
Panama City, Panama - Photos of students and instructors at the Hisao Lee Academy of Martial Arts at a conference, welcoming Panamanian president Martin Torrijos, and helping disadvantaged people in the countryside.
- Written by: Youth Service Initiative-Europe
- Written by: Fosayo Irikura, Women's Federation for World Peace-Jordan
The Iraqis in Jordan need jobs, they need a place to congregate, and a community to provide support. There needs to be a resource center established that employs Iraqis to help Iraqis. Iraqis need access to basic medical care, satellite television, and Internet.
- Written by: Diesa Seidel, United Initiatives for Peace, and John Gehring, Religious Youth Service
Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Volunteers, supplies, and funds are needed for a summer camp that will offer sports, arts, music, dance, field trips, life skills, and personal growth and team-building activities for 200 Haitian youth Aug. 15-29, 2010.
- Written by: Richard Sapp, International Relief Friendship Foundation
Cap-Haitien, Haiti - Since the January 12 earthquake, International Relief Friendship Foundation representatives have made three trips to the country providing relief work. In addition, $9,000 has been spent by IRFF on domestic and overseas shipping costs, to deliver donated food and medical supplies to the north coast of Haiti.
- Written by: Evelyne Drake, International Relief Friendship Foundation
Cap-Haitien, Haiti - The Spring Break Service Project March 7-14 gave another opportunity for Women's Federation for World Peace and the International Relief Friendship Foundation and Service for Peace to work together to help people on the north coast of Haiti. On the foundation of previous trips to Haiti, Mrs. Betsy Jones, a psychiatric nurse who teaches trauma seminars in Albany, New York, joined the project.