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Youth and Service
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Dancing Transcends Borders in Kiev
- Saturday, April 7, 2012
Kiev, Ukraine - The third international children-and-youth choreography festival and contest on the theme “Dancing Beyond Borders-2012” that took place in Kiev on April 6 and 7 was a real pageant of creativity and talents. The initiators of this remarkable event were the Ballet Academy of Ukraine, Universal Peace Federation, center of culture “Sun”, and international charitable foundation “Art Beyond Borders.”
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UPF Joins Russia's Spring Week of Goodness
- Saturday, April 28, 2012
During Russia's annual "Spring Week of Goodness," April 21-23, 2012, UPF volunteers and Youth Ambassadors for Peace carried out about 100 projects in several cities.
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Vienna Youth Forum: Exploring Global Citizenship
- Thursday, April 12, 2012
Vienna, Austria - Following up on the international youth conference during the UN International Year of Youth last July about youth perspectives on peace, the Youth-UPF Austria organized an April 12 forum on “Exploring Global Citizenship.”
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Buddhist, Muslim, and Christian Youth Serve a School in Northern Thailand
- Monday, March 19, 2012
Baan Dadthongchareon, Thailand - A Religious Youth Project in an agricultural community in northern Thailand from March 15 to 19 promoted understanding, friendship, and harmony among participants. The 70 Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, and Catholic youth worked together to improve a children's playground, build vegetable and fruit gardens, repair the road inside the school compound, and build a water drainage system.
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Eurasian Delegation Gains Medals at Wongu Games in Korea
- Saturday, March 24, 2012
Seoul, Korea - Eurasian athletes took medals at the recent World Festival of Culture and Sports (including the Wongu Peace Cup) in South Korea March 21 to 24. Professionals and amateurs from 40 nations competed as continental teams for medals in football, basketball, 100 m and 400 m races, table tennis, badminton, martial arts, and traditional Asian games of harmony and unity.
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UPF-Nepal Organizes Free Health Clinic
- Sunday, March 11, 2012
Chitwan, Nepal - More than 750 people without access to cardiac care benefited from a free health check-up program in Chitwan on March 11, 2012.
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Norwegian Children Send Gifts to Estonian Children
- Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Narva, Estonia - In January UPF-Estonia organized a project with International Relief Friendship Foundation of Norway and an Orthodox church community in Narva, Estonia. UPF-Estonia received about 60 individually packed gifts from the children of a school in Norway. These gifts were distributed among the children at an Orthodox school in Narva.
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St. Petersburg House of Writers Hosts Religious Youth Service Project
- Friday, January 27, 2012
St. Petersburg, Russia - People from Russia, Estonia and Latvia assembled iat the House of Writers near St. Petersburg for a Religious Youth Service project Jan. 24-27, 2012, helping clean the building and visiting religious sites in the area.
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US and St. Lucia Youth Inspire One Another
- Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Anse-la-Raye, St. Lucia - UPF-St. Lucia hosted 17 members of the Generation Peace Academy who came from the United States to Anse-la-Raye in November 2011 to spend three weeks repairing homes along the beach and teaching classes at the local primary school.
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Sri Lanka Religious Youth Service Project Proves That 'Nothing Is Impossible'
- Thursday, December 22, 2011
Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka - In a village that suffered some of the most brutal fighting of the Sri Lanka civil war, Religious Youth Service brought 43 people from four religious traditions to help build a community center as part of a service-learning project from December 16-22.
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Religious Youth Service Builds Roof at School in Lumbini, Nepal
- Thursday, December 8, 2011
Lumbini, Nepal - The Universal Peace Federation opened its service project at a primary school in Lumbini, the birthplace of the Buddha, on December 1, the same day the government of Nepal launched a campaign to promote tourism and development of its key Buddhist shrines.
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Living for Others Awards Given in Sydney
- Saturday, November 12, 2011
Sydney, Australia - UPF-Australia hosted the seventh annual Living for Others Award event on November 12. There was a full house of 120 attendees in the main hall of the Oceania Peace Embassy in Sydney.