Who Are Our Guests?

These youth are proudly showing their seedlings. Their teacher Chrisantus stands with them.

Chrisantus is the director of the SoilFarm Multi-Culture Group (SFMG), a UUSC partner in Kenya. He has helped protect water resources through Hope in Crops, a groundbreaking youth education and training program that teaches children in 30 local schools about protecting the environment, planting trees, growing crops, and raising bees.

Chrisantus works to empower his local community while being mindful of their larger impact. UUSC is proud to partner with someone who upholds and respects the interdependent web of existence.

Learn more about Hope in Crops, justice, and sustainability in Stories of Hope. Go deeper and read more about UUSC's Environmental Justice Program and its work for water justice in Kenya and around the world.

Dalia is a youth leader and human-rights activist in Egypt. She is shattering barriers to empower a generation of Egyptians who are experiencing democracy for the first time.

Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr., Dalia worked with UUSC to translate a comic book about the Montgomery bus boycott into Arabic and train youth activists in nonviolent protest. Following the 2011 nonviolent revolution, she is working to educate voters throughout Egypt, many of whom have never voted in an election, and encourage them to take part in their budding democracy.

Dalia believes that everyone should have a voice and a choice in democratic society.

Learn more about the training and education in nonviolence and civic engagement for youth activists in Stories of Hope. Go deeper and read more about UUSC's Civil Liberties Program, including partners around the world and in the United States.

Maria is a leader for workers’ rights with the Northwest Arkansas Workers' Justice Center (NWAWJC), making a difference for both undocumented and legal immigrant workers. 

When she was 16, Maria moved from Mexico to California, where she helped her family by working in the lettuce and strawberry fields. Many companies were underpaying, abusing, and threatening undocumented workers. Maria saw and experienced that — and took action by starting a program to help immigrant workers. Now she works with NWAWJC, a UUSC partner, to improve conditions for low-wage workers.

Maria works with women at NWAWJC as peers, in similar spirit to UUSC's eye-to-eye partnership model. Like you and UUSC, she strives to honor the inherent worth and dignity of every person.

Learn more about how UUSC is partnering with worker-justice leaders in Stories of Hope. Go deeper and read more about UUSC's Economic Justice Program, which supports workers' rights in Arkansas and around the world.

In Haiti, UUSC is working with partners to protect unaccompanied children. 

Lionel, of the Oasis Institute, has helped build an innovative camp to house and protect unaccompanied children. Home to 40 girls, Camp Oasis provides more than just a roof over their heads. With a secure place to live, they are less likely to be the victim of gender-based violence, which is rampant in the camps for internally displaced earthquake survivors.

In Stories of Hope, you will meet Patrick, a youth who grew up in a particularly disadvantaged neighborhood in Port-au-Prince. He found hope — and a new life — through an art workshop created by the Association for the Promotion of Integral Family Healthcare (APROSIFA), a UUSC partner. On his own from a young age, Patrick was able to reclaim his dignity through his art and return to school with money from selling his paintings. UUSC funding has not only allowed Patrick to continue pursuing his dream of being an artist, it has also contributed to his development as a leader and made it possible for him to mentor other youth.

UUSC's work strengthens the cultural wealth that already exists in communities and helps young people reclaim their dignity and rights in the midst of crisis.

Learn more about Patrick and how he has helped other youth in Stories of Hope. Go deeper and read more about UUSC's Rights in Humanitarian Crises Program, and how it delivers aid with dignity in Haiti and around the world.