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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Religious Youth Service Repairs A School in Rural Transylvania.
- Sunday, August 11, 1996
Transylvania, Romania— RYS participants repair a school in rural Transylvania
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RYS's Third Friendship America's Project Builds Classrooms with Locals in Honduras
- Tuesday, July 2, 1996
Tegucigalpa, Honduras— RYS participants helped roof and build walls for eight classrooms with local workers joining in.
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RYS Participants Practice Interfaith Cooperation Through a Road Construction Project in Bangladesh
- Monday, May 13, 1996
Bangladesh— Students from the RYS Club at Dhaka University practice interfaith cooperation through a road construction project.
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RYS-Croatia Participants Assists in Restoring a Clinic
- Sunday, April 7, 1996
Drnis, Croatia— Participants worked on four rooms of an out patient clinic, laid the roof, grounds restoration.
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RYS-Sri Lanka Works to Restore Playground in Gampaha District
- Sunday, March 17, 1996
Koskandawala, Sri Lanka— At a temple premises in Gampaha district restoration work on a playground and grounds of the local pre-school.
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Roads Widened in India with RYS
- Sunday, February 25, 1996
Karukutty, Kerala, South India— RYS worked on widening rural village roads along with local villages based on the foundation of Gramswaraj, a Gandhian rural development outreach based at the Mohatma Gandhi University.
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RYS-Haiti works with Friendship Americas Project
- Monday, January 15, 1996
Port-au-Prince, Haiti— The RYS in an effort to work to create a wider network of cooperating organization is working with Friendship America Projects. Participants roofed a school building, helped make a foundation for a clinic and landscaped the terrain at the Haitian Academy.
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RYS Constructs Road in a Rural Sri Lankan Village
- Sunday, December 24, 1995
IIIukativakanda Village, Sri Lanka— Road construction in a small rural village done in conjunction with the Sarvodaya movement.
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RYS and Summerhill Community Development Joins Ongoing Programs
- Wednesday, June 21, 1995
Atlanta, United States— Working with Summerhill Community Development participants, joined their ongoing programs by painting rooms in private houses, gardening, and helping with basic carpentry.
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RYS Offers Services to Help Rebuild in Croatia
- Friday, March 17, 1995
Varasdin, Croatia— Participants helped restore a classroom, numerous refugee's apartments, painted a large dinning room and several hallways, fixed public toilets, and worked on local grounds upkeep.
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RYS Volunteers Paves Road to School in Bangladesh
- Thursday, January 19, 1995
Chittagong/Aburkhil, Bangladesh— Participants carried 3000 bricks to a school and begin constructing a paved road (Amity Road) to the school.
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RYS-Thailand Provides Needed Services in Bangkok
- Saturday, October 29, 1994
Bangkok, Thailand— The work of RYS was slowed down in Thailand on account of government persecution in 1992-3. This project in the North of Thailand was designed to rebuild the RYS and IRFF foundation while providing needed services for the region.
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