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: Darkwell Sakala, Secretary General, UPF-Lesotho
Maseru, Lesotho - A major project of UPF-Lesotho is teaching HIV/AIDS prevention and caring for orphaned children because of the high HIV/AIDS infection rate in the nation.
- Written by: Dr. Raphael Oko, Secretary General, UPF-Nigeria
Abuja, Nigeria - UPF-Nigeria launched a Health for Peace Initiative on Nov. 12, 2014, to help prevent further spread of Ebola and contribute to peacebuilding.
- Written by: Jacques Marion, President, UPF-France
Brazzaville, Congo - The shipment of 45,000 books donated by UPF-France as part of its Books for Congo project was delivered on Nov. 10, 2014.
- Written by: Masumi Schmittat, UPF-Cambodia
Kratie, Cambodia - Thirty people traveled from Phnom Penh to Kratie Province on Oct. 31, 2014 to offer free medical care in the Kratie province in northeastern Cambodia.
- Written by: Djimadoum Fabrice, UPF-Zambia
Lusaka, Zambia - UPF-Zambia held a cleaning campaign at COMESA on Oct. 22 as a contribution towards the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the independence of Zambia.
- Written by: UPF - Nigeria
Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria - Dr. Oyeniyi Oluwashogo Seun, an Ambassador for Peace, took the Global Handwashing Day campaign, Oct. 15, to two schools in Ogun State where he guided the students in washing their hands with soap and donated supplies to the schools.
- Written by: UPF Solomon Islands
Honiara, Solomon Islands - As part of the True Citizenship Building Education Initiative, second-hand reading books were donated to seven schools in the Solomon Islands.
- Written by: Jacques Marion, Secretary General, UPF-France
Rouen, France - A 30 cubic meter container filled with donated books left the port of Rouen, France, on Aug. 2, 2014, headed toward Pointe Noire in the Republic of Congo.
- Written by: Renate Amesbauer, President of WFWP-Austria, and Elisabeth Riedl, Vice President of WFWP-Austria
UPF-Austria collaborated with the Women's Federation for World Peace to host the "Angels of Peace," Russian children between the ages of nine and 14, on a cultural exchange tour in Austria June 22-29, 2014, ending in a performance at the Peace Embassy in Vienna.
- Written by: UPF - Thailand
Chiang Rai, Thailand - UPF-Thailand and its Ambassadors for Peace, together with the Lions Club of Thailand, traveled to northern Thailand June 2-4 to deliver aid to victims of the May 5, 2014, earthquake.
- Written by: UPF - Vanuatu
Tafea State, Vanuatu - Thirteen coffee experts from South Korea visited the town of Tanna from April 28 to May 8, 2014, to learn about the New Village Movement's coffee growing project.
- Written by: UPF - Ukraine
Kiev, Ukraine - UPF invited volunteers from Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Zhytomyr and Lviv to come to Kiev May 2-5, 2014, to help brighten the lives of children in the spirit of living in one country, regardless of the language they speak or region they are from.