Women’s Interfaith Network of the United Religions Initiative (WIN URI)

Purpose: To provide an interactive global network for women’s projects to be realized locally and globally.

Description of activities: WIN URI was founded at the URI Global Council Meeting in May 2006, held at the Vallambrosa Retreat Center in Menlo Park, CA, USA. Rachel Watcher agreed to create a webpage for the Multi Region webpage and Rachel and P. K. Mc Cary offered to establish an e- list for the membership. One of our first service projects was to donate funds to help support services coordinated by two of our members, Joyce Ng´oma and Shakun Vaswani. Joyce is leading a series of visitations to women prisoners of different faiths in Malawi, to assist the women with hygiene, mental health and education. This project inspired our members to agree to research the situation of women prisoners in our own countries, with a view to identifying interfaith service opportunities. Shakun´s project provides small loans to Christian and Muslim women in the Philippines, to help them star individual handicrafts business. Our members agree to try to create a market place on the web displaying photos and other information about products created by these and other women around the world. Mary Kelley will investigate the possibility of taking payment by pay-pal. Nadia Weber and Mónica Willard will coordinate this ongoing activity. Also on a monthly basis we will share stories from two members on different continents via the web starting with P. K. Mc Cary, Joyce in July, Nadia and Mónica in August. P.K. and Joyce will explore the possibility of featuring stories about our CC or about other women’s projects on their radio programs.

Our WIN URI members come from the US, Uganda, Israel, Ethiopia, Argentina, Malawi, the Philipines, India, Jordan, Iran.

Faith traditions are:
Wicca, Christian Orthodox, United Church of Christ, Jewish, Roman Catholic, Muslim, Indigenous Kolla, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Hindu, Episcopalian, Christian Science, Baha’I, Indigenous Lakota

Despina Namwembe
P.O.Box 72190, Clock tower, Kampala UGANDA 
+256 41 542 461
dmwembe@yahoo.com

Elana Rozenman
15 Naomi Street, Jerusalem, ISRAEL
+972 2 6729317
erozenman@bezeqint.net

Monica Willard
1809 Meadow Ridge Court,Bethelehem,PA 18015 

Related Website: http://www.urimulti.org/global_women_interfaith_network_URI.php