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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.
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Art as a Service in Creating Peace in the Communities
- Friday, July 1, 2005
Bristol, England— RYS held an art service project from July 1st to the 9th. Initially many had been skeptical about the project. When they saw the finished work they were surprised at the way the project had inspired many diverse people to unite.
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World Peace and the Role of Youth
- Monday, June 27, 2005
Honduras— Working with the children to give them hope for a brighter future fits with the theme of the project “World Peace and the Role of Youth.” By working together with the children, the young people set an example of love and service.
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The Environment as our Spiritual Responsibility
- Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Palau— The Palau service project consisted of painting a local high school, the toilet block, sun roof, the girls’ sewing classroom and storeroom block.
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Creating Youth Ambassadors for Peace
- Sunday, June 19, 2005
Tenaru, Solomon Islands— The RYS Solomon Islands project was held at St. Joseph’s Secondary College in Tenaru, which is a prominent Catholic school in the area.
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RYS-Thailand Modeling the Ideals of World Peace
- Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Thailand— The Thailand RYS education program was designed to train participants to become future leaders. Based on the theme “Modeling the Ideals of a World Peace,” the activities focused on team building, conflict resolution, increased awareness and appreciation of interaction styles.
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Service to Humanity - the Path to Peace and Unity
- Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Perak, Malaysia— The RYS volunteers worked on two distinct locations as participants painted two Bethany Home Residential Quarters and also repaired a residence for a family of 4 handicapped children including the construction of an outlet drain in the vicinity of Bethany Home.
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Religious Youth Service Brings Nigerians Hope for Peace
- Monday, May 9, 2005
Kassa, Nigeria - “The Religious Youth Service has leaped where others could not dare,” commented a journalist who followed the participants as they spent five days in May 2005 doing work in the village of Kassa in Plateau State, site of much destruction caused by religious conflict.
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RYS 2005 National and International Projects Review
- Saturday, January 1, 2005
RYS Annual Report 2005—In 2005, we brought the RYS spirit of healing and reconciliation to areas such as Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Indonesia and Thailand, sites of recent religious and ethnic strife.
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Religious Youth Service Distributes Medicine and Books in Patawan, Philippines
- Sunday, October 24, 2004
Patawan, Philippines - Participants in a Religious Youth Service project in Patawan, Philippines, Oct. 20-24, 2004, distributed medicine to four villages, painted a school building, distributed reading materials and visited religious sites.
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Salt, Jordan Hosts a Religious Youth Service Project
- Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Religious Youth Service's first project in the Middle East was arranged in cooperation with Jordan’s Higher Council for Youth. This project had been selected from several proposed by the city of Salt, north of Amman. The work involved clearing the grounds around a disused building and redecorating it so the building could be used as a skills training center for local women and the garden made into a safe play area for their children.
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RYS Hosts 'As Friends Project' in Indonesia
- Saturday, October 2, 2004
Jakarta, Indonesia— The 5th RYS drew participants together under the theme of “Building a Culture of Peace and Volunteerism.”
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RYS International Director Participates in UN Forum
- Friday, September 10, 2004
United Nations, New York— RYS International Director, John W. Gehring was invited to be a speaker and panelist representing the Religious Youth Service at a UN DPI/NGO interactive workshop, entitled “The Role of NGO’s in Overcoming Poverty through Education”.
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