Our next Outreach Collection, (rescheduled from April 23), will be to reduce Youth Hunger by benefiting those community programs that help our children and youth have the sustenance they need to grow, learn, play, and lead healthy, productive lives. Thirty percent of the funds collected will support the Feed the Kids Coalition, which provides a […]
We do not yet know the damage that will be done to social justice issues under the new administration. Per the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, “we must focus, even more sharply than before, on our commitment to the deeply held principles and values that are now so relentlessly under siege—justice, equality, and human rights.” You […]
The UUFH Social Justice Team is joining with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) to provide help to Haitians who must rebuild again. Hurricane Mathew struck Haiti on October 4th killing over 1000 people and devastated homes, whole towns, and a fragile infrastructure still recovering from previous hurricanes and the massive 2011 earthquake. Crops were also destroyed and cholera is […]
Outreach Collection Sunday, November 22: Youth Hunger: At this time of celebration of harvest and our ritual feasting for Thanksgiving, we dedicate our November Outreach Collection to Youth Hunger—to those programs in our community that help to ensure that our children and youth have the sustenance they need to grow and learn and play and lead healthy productive […]
The Social Justice Outreach Team (SJOT) announces the yearly call for nominations for the UUFH Unsung Hero Award. The process and criteria are simple: those nominated for this award should be UUFH members who have made, and are making, a solid, continuing contribution to UUFH and/or the larger community. A nominee’s contributions may not be generally well known […]
Fran and Bob German are in the latest issue of the Hendersonville Lightning newspaper. The article talks about their work on creating more awareness about human trafficking. The Germans, who retired to Hendersonville 10 years ago from careers in real estate sales in Florida, created a local chapter of ACT — Abolish Child Trafficking. The […]