Sari Heidenreich

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Former URI-North America Regional Coordinator

Sari Heidenreich is the North America Regional Coordinator for URI. In this capacity, Sari connects and empowers grassroots organizers in over 100 interfaith organizations across the US and Canada. As a young leader herself, Sari has supported many young adults to move into and to thrive in leadership roles, and has coached established organizations and leaders on creating a climate that welcomes youth leadership. A skilled intercultural communicator, Sari spent middle and high school in Ghana, West Africa, and as an adult, she has lived, traveled, and worked in the Middle East, including a year-long stint in Jerusalem.

URI Stories of Impact

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Interfaith Action: URI Cooperation Circles Around the World Provide Care to Refugees

Africa
Europe
Multiregion
North America
Community Building
Health and Social Services
Human Rights
Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue
Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
Poverty Alleviation and Economic Opportunity
Youth

With the world's eyes fixed on the refugee crisis in Europe and the Middle East, URI Cooperation Circle from Germany to Bulgaria to Bosnia and Herzegovina are building "safe places" and "giving hospitality" to refugees. With the recent influx of refugees, Cooperation Circles across Europe are mobilizing to welcome refugees, providing for basic needs and more.

Oprah Presents "BELIEF" Series; URI Members to be featured

North America
Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue
Media
Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation

For three years Oprah has been working to create a television series that illuminates what bind us together as human beings — BELIEF.  Episode 2, tells the story of Christian Pastor James Wuye and Muslim Imam Muhammad Ashafa, members of the United Religions Initiative Interfaith Mediation Centre Cooperation Circle. These men used to be brutal enemies but now work together to promote peace.