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RYS Hosts 11th Africa Rising Project in Ghana
Written by RYS-Ghana
Monday, January 19, 2004
| Participants: 35 | Religions Represented: 4 | Nations Represented: 4 |
Accra, Ghana— 11th Africa Rising
Duration: January 15 - 19, 2004
Central Work: Cleaning and personal care; offering donations
The Religious Youth Service has been active in Ghana since 1992, so during the January 13 –25 project the focus was on participants from Accra, the capitol.
The learning aspect of RYS included presentations by distinguished experts in the fields of education, religion, and medicine. Also included were basic RYS team building exercises.
This interreligious youth community bonded during their daily experiences of eating together, serving the needs of patients at the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital Adecta, cleaning the environment and meeting with patients.
Also worthy of reflection was cleaning done at Weija Communicable Disease Hospital, where leprous women and men received food, gifts and songs of peace from the participants.
Follow-up efforts are being made to institutionalize RYS as a means of networking NGOs in Africa for interreligious action.
Co-operating Agencies: Global Evangelical Church of Ghana
Key Sponsors: IIFWP
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