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Youth and Service
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RYS Participants Undertake Restoration Projects in Estonia
- Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Pilistvere, Estonia – One group worked at the Lutheran church cleaning and finishing the restoration work in the steeple of the church. The second group worked on two adventure courses which benefited the community and could be enjoyed by everyone. Finally, on the third project, the group built an extension to one side of the sauna and on the roof.
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RYS Participants Repair Community Buildings in Waterford
- Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Waterford, Jamaica – Thirty-two young people labored enthusiastically cleaning, repairing and painting the Waterford High School, the Waterford Primary School, and the Waterford Community Center.
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Religious Youth Service Helps Build a Community Center in Southern Sri Lanka
- Wednesday, August 9, 2006
Tangalle, Sri Lanka - After the December 26, 2004 tsunami, RYS worked with other agencies to build a community center and sports complex in Tangalle, on the southern coast.
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RYS Organizes a Leadership Seminar in Jamaica
- Sunday, July 30, 2006
Kingston, Jamaica – Religious Youth Service (RYS) organized a Leadership Seminar to educate its next generation of leaders or second wave of leadership, to help expand its worldwide work.
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RYS Helps Build a Kindergarten in Lan Jia Chun
- Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Lan jia chun, China – Chinese and foreign RYS participants helped the workmen building a kindergarten in the small village.
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RYS Participants Restore a Community Meeting Place in Palau
- Sunday, July 23, 2006
Airai, Palau – RYS participants restored Bai ra Mlengl, the village's traditional meeting place.
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RYS Helps Build Additions on to a Mayan School
- Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala – RYS volunteers from Cuba, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, United Kingdom, and the United States helped build additions on to a Mayan school.
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RYS Project Renovates Primary School in Malaysia
- Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia— The service project consisted of some heavy brick and cement work, painting and clearing the grounds of a dilapidated Primary School.
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Religious Youth Service Promotes Interreligious Harmony in Chennai, India
- Monday, April 3, 2006
Religious Youth Service teamed up Indian athletes from the Interreligious Peace Sports Festival to clean and preserve a 100-year-old sacred painting in a 2,000-year-old Hindu temple in rural south India in April 2006.
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RYS 2006 National and International Projects Review
- Sunday, January 1, 2006
RYS Annual Report 2006—2006 was a good year for Religious Youth Service. Thanks to the work of project developers and educators, we were able to carry out 13 international projects and give over 500 young people from 35 nations an opportunity to experience the stimulating interreligious and intercultural friendship building atmosphere of RYS.
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Chennai Hosts Regional Religious Youth Service Project
- Friday, September 30, 2005
Chennai, India—Forty young, enthusiastic volunteers representing five religions assembled in Chennai Sept. 23-30, 2005 to take part in values education and to build bathrooms at an orphanage
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Tamils and Sinhalese Help Tsunami Survivors on the International Day of Peace
- Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Religious Youth Service organized a service project in southern Sri Lanka Sept. 16-24, 2005, to mark the UN International Day of Peace and to help those affected by the tsunami.