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Youth and Service
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RYS-Malaysia Builds Foundation for New Community Center
- Saturday, April 24, 1993
Sungal Batu/ Teluk Kumbar, Malaysia— The participants demolished an old community hall and laid the foundation for a new community center for the fishing community and painted and refurnished another community center. The project was in part a response to needs of the Ministry of the Fisheries.
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RYS Global Congress International Project
- Saturday, February 13, 1993
New Delhi, India—The RYS Global Congress (RYSGF) centered on ten unique week long seminars. The ten workshops were led by the most experienced and qualified advisors and graduates from the RYS and its sister project, The Youth Seminar for the World Religion's (YSWR).
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Preliminary RYS Seminars in Asia
- Sunday, January 31, 1993
Asia—In preparation for the RYSGF it was decided to prepare youth audiences throughout South Asia by holding frequent seminars on the workshop themes.
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RYS-Bangladesh Organizes Projects with School Clubs
- Wednesday, October 21, 1992
Chittagong, Bangladesh—The RYS alumni in Bangladesh began an RYS club and started to hold meeting on campus and at other NGO locations. They worked to create and organize a second national project and could invite some of the neighboring nations to get involved. The theme of the project was "Green Project" and helped organizers to highlight issues that would serve to raise environmental conscience.
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RYS-Sri Lanka hosts South Asia Project
- Friday, September 4, 1992
Ratnapura, Sri Lanka—RYS volunteers worked in a poor religiously diverse community providing health surveys for the Ministry of Health.
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Caring for the Environment in Czechoslovakia
- Friday, July 24, 1992
Brno Prague, Czechoslovakia—The work project was designed to be in line with the educational theme: "Caring for the environment." All seventy participants and staff helped on various tasks at a large nursery/greenhouse where thousands of seedlings were cared for and large areas were weeded.
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RYS-Czechoslovakia holds Seminars and Workshops
- Thursday, July 23, 1992
Prague, Czechoslovakia—This seminar had three different workshops and was held on the last full day of the RYS project. The workshops involved 120 local participants plus the RYS participants.
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Communities Serving Communities in Ghana
- Monday, May 4, 1992
Kodzi, Ghana—RYS participants worked on the renovation of a local school with ten classrooms. Much of the work consisted of moving earth and bricks, laying bricks, clearing grounds, landscaping and other light construction work.
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RYS has International Alumni Leadership Training in India
- Wednesday, March 4, 1992
Vrindaban, India—The RYS participants worked to restore and paint old Hindu temple and spent much time excavating sacred monuments at a burial site that were covered by the passage over hundreds of years.
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RYS-India Restores Temple and Excavates Sacred Monuments
- Monday, March 2, 1992
Vrindaban, India—The RYS participants worked to restore and paint old Hindu temple and spent much time excavating sacred monuments at a burial site that were covered by the passage over hundreds of years.
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RYS Restores a School in Bangladesh
- Friday, January 31, 1992
Dhaka, Bangladesh—Participants did light construction and restoration work on a school. This first national project was served to pull in a large number of good students into the RYS vision.
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RYS-India Paves Roads and Builds Facilities for St. Joseph's Elementary School
- Tuesday, October 1, 1991
Cochin, Kerela, India—This project had a powerful impact on the Kochin and India interfaith community because of its linkage to the WFIRC interfaith meeting. Several interfaith leaders in the Kerala area were moved by the RYS and they helped make a foundation for further activities in that state.