What’s new in social action in EUU – including in the fellowships.
Eva Kortekaas
Members of NUUF, the Netherlands Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, helped lead part of the continuous 24/7 worship in a church asylum program in The Hague. Eva Kortekaas has written about their experience and also about the success of the church asylum and its implications for … read more.
The various collections for Social Action at the EUT 2019 in Berlin were very successful. Read the report from Diana, the acting Social Action Coordinators here.
The EUU Coordinating Council has authorized Social Action to consider contributions to local community or fellowship projects again this year, so we strongly encourage you to submit a request for support.
Examples of projects you could request funds for:
administrative and legal help in social justice matters
banners … read more.
By Adrienne Brayman
For the past several years, Jodi Stolzenbach has worked tirelessly to coordinate social action activities across EUU. More recently, Diana Smith joined her as co-coordinator. Together, their tasks have ranged from organizing the collections of eyeglasses, corks, bags, and more at retreats, to … read more.
At the fall retreat in Cologne, the Unifier sat down with five of the teens, Adam, Johnny, Kai, Réka, and Dalma.
The week before the retreat, from 28 October to 2 November, Adam, Johnny, and Kai visited the János Zsigmond Unitarian Academy in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. They … read more.
Sigrid Van Eepoel reports that following Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg’s climate leadership, Brussels’ teens have skipped school for the first five Thursdays of 2019 to march through the streets of the capital of Belgium and the EU. Their call for political action on climate change … read more.
In November 2018, the Prague Unitarians (International Unitarian Church of Prague) organized an art exhibition, Everyone’s Original, to raise money for a local charity, Amelie, that supports cancer patients and their families.
David Wadmore, one of the organizers, has written a guide to how it was … read more.
The various collections for Social Action at the Fall Retreat in Cologne were very successful. Read the report from Diana and Jodi, the Social Action Co-Coordinators here.
(Updated 20 Jan 2019)
Those who check the website regularly may recall that over the summer, EUU awarded six social action grants to charities and organizations proposed by fellowships. Those organizations are as follows:
Oasis, proposed by Brussels;
the Story Store, proposed by Wiesbaden;
the Refugee Task Force, proposed … read more.
The Social Action section of the website contains new details about items Social Action are collecting at the fall retreat in Cologne to donate to various charities.
Social Action Collections at the Cologne Retreat
