Religious Youth Service
UPF chapters organize Religious Youth Service projects that offer service-learning opportunities with a special focus on developing personal leadership and peacemaking skills. Through living together and providing altruistic service in a community, participants demonstrate that it is possible for our global human family to come together in peace for our mutual well being.
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RYS-Philippines: A Celebration of Service on the 58th Anniversary of the UN
- Wednesday, October 22, 2003
Province of Cavite, Philippines—RYS repaired and painted a school, built and donated bookshelves, and landscaped a school.
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RYS-Australia: RYS Project in the Crossroads
- Saturday, October 11, 2003
Red Fern, Sydney, Australia—This program gathered seventy young adults from various faiths to have some interreligious programs and offer service to the Aboriginal community.
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RYS-Honduras: Launching of the IIFWP/RYS Medical Clinic
- Saturday, September 27, 2003
Tegucigalpa, Honduras—The RYS worked in cooperation with Service for Peace dedicated this day in order to commemorate the UN International Day of Peace through offering a day of service and reflection at in doing service at the School of Midwifery in Rivers State.
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RYS-Nigeria Commemorates United Nations International Day of Peace
- Sunday, September 21, 2003
River State, Nigeria—The RYS worked in cooperation with Service for Peace dedicated this day in order to commemorate the UN International Day of Peace through offering a day of service and reflection at in doing service at the School of Midwifery in Rivers State.
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RYS-Paraguay: Community Harmony, Environmental Sustainability: Gateway to Peace
- Thursday, August 28, 2003
Puerto Diana, Paraguay—Participants worked in the Native Indian village of Deena on the Paraguay River in the Pantanal. There they helped build the foundation and walls for a new community school. Participant spent a day of service at a school in the poorer ‘Las Chacaritas’ district of the capital.
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RYS in Trinidad & Tobago; Caring for the Environment as a Spiritual Responsibility
- Thursday, August 14, 2003
Trinidad & Tobago—RYS works on environment cleaning with Bocco Reef Foundation at Aripo Heights. During this project participants also constructed a room to train disabled youth and paint the Charis School, peace mural in the inner city.
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RYS-Sri Lanka: Peace Through Interreligious Dialogue & Service
- Wednesday, August 13, 2003
Jaffna, Sri Lanka—RYS finished constructing and painting walls, building a small room, and laying a roof of a preschool. In addition, we donated furniture and play equipment for the school and repaired a fence and planted trees and a garden.
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RYS-Indonesia Helps Bridge Communities with Unity in Diversity Program
- Monday, June 30, 2003
Jogjakarta, Indonesia—To help heal the past animosity between the Chinese Indonesian and the Malay Indonesian communities the Indonesian Confucius Society helped organize RYS work at an old Islamic School.
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RYS Hold Unity in Diversity Program in Malaysia
- Saturday, June 14, 2003
Perlis, Malaysia—This project brought young adults from 13 nations and 5 religions to a conservative area in Malaysia where they worked in cooperation with one of the nations seven Muslim Universities. This is the second project with the university and both were locally organized by a young professor who is a graduate of RYS.
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Loving Kindness: An Instrument for Peace
- Wednesday, April 9, 2003
Banepa, Nepal—RYS lights 10,000 earthen lamps as an interfaith prayer for peace at a Sakya Buddhist Center.
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Religious Youth Service Building a Culture of Everlasting Peace
- Friday, January 10, 2003
Aotearoa, New Zealand—This was the second RYS project in New Zealand and the first international program. This project drew much support from Australia and pulled in participants from a wide variety of nations and religious traditions.
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RYS 2003 National and International Projects Review
- Wednesday, January 1, 2003
RYS Annual Report 2003—The Religious Youth Service (RYS) in 2003 continued to develop its international projects and local clubs in selected areas as part of a larger IIWFP strategy. In 2003, the RYS completed nine large international projects and four national level programs. In addition the staff of the RYS guided the international development and education program for the 1st Interreligious Peace Sports Festival recruiting athletes from 10 religions and 40 nations.
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