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.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-India
Lucknow, India—The Religious Youth Service of India will hold its 2016 service project in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India from November 25 to 29 and invites international volunteers to participate.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: UPF-Pakistan
Lahore, Pakistan—Twenty-five young people helped rebuild a church building in Lahore in a Religious Youth Service project that took place in the city from October 2 to 6.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: Dmitry Oficerov, secretary general, UPF-Siberia
Novosibirsk, Russia—The multifaceted project "Path for Youth toward a Culture of Peace" took place from September 12 to 21, 2016.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-Sri Lanka
Ampara, Sri Lanka—Youth from ten nations helped build a community center as part of the annual Religious Youth Service project in Sri Lanka.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: UPF-Russia
Novosibirsk Russia—UPF-Russia is now registering participants for a very interesting program called “Service of Youth from Different Religions for the Sake of Peace,” which will take place from September 21 to 22, 2016, in the city of Novosibirsk.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: Dinesha Liyanasuriya, UPF-Sri Lanka
Colombo, Sri Lanka—Religious Youth Service of Sri Lanka would like to announce its 2016 service project and to invite international volunteers to take part.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS
Washington, D.C., United States—Young future leaders augmented their year-long training with eight days of learning firsthand about major world religions.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: UPF-Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal—Two Religious Youth Service projects that took place in Nepal were featured in the South Asian newspapers, The Kathmandu Post and The Daily Observer.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: UPF-Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal—Young people from nine nations renovated areas of school in a project of the Religious Youth Service.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: UPF-Sri Lanka
Yakkala, Sri Lanka—Young volunteers built a preschool in the Gampaha district northwest of Colombo as part of the annual Religious Youth Service project.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: Carol Pobanz, advisor, Religious Youth Service
Tegucigalpa, Honduras—From November 4 to 11, representatives of RYS and UPF presented a vision for a peace park to government officials and a former head of state.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: Mrs. Tomiko Duggan, director of RYS-Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Susan Fefferman; and Dr. William Selig, deputy director of UPF's Office of Peace and Security Affairs-Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., USA—Young leaders from around the world participated in a Religious Youth Service project in Washington, D.C. from July 12-15.