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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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RYS 2004 National and International Projects Review
- Thursday, January 1, 2004
RYS Annual Report 2004—The Religious Youth Service (RYS) in its nearly 20-year history has built strong bonds of cooperation between young adults of each religion and culture, many of whom are presently working in fields of ecumenical and interreligious cooperation today. In 2004, RYS was able to educate youth through 15 service projects worldwide, including its first project in the Middle East and its 2nd annual Interreligious Peace Sports Festival.
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RYS Helps Create Peace Among Religions in India
- Sunday, December 14, 2003
New Delhi, India—Hosted by Chetanalaya, a social action NGO of the Catholic Diocese of New Delhi, RYS volunteers offered their labor in building a community center which served both the Muslim and Hindu Residents of Janta Colony in Jaffarabad. The efforts drew the cooperation from both communities in laying the foundation stones and stimulated further work together for community improvements.
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RYS-Australia Joins Sikh Service Program
- Saturday, December 6, 2003
Sydney, Australia— A program was hosted by the Sikh community and brought together 40 youth from various religious traditions for service and understanding.
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RYS-Thailand: Building a Foundation of Peace and Friendship Through Loving Service
- Monday, October 27, 2003
Korat, Thailand—Work focused on repairing and improving the structure of a medical clinic and the local grounds.
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RYS-Philippines: A Celebration of Service on the 58th Anniversary of the UN
- Wednesday, October 22, 2003
Province of Cavite, Philippines—RYS repaired and painted a school, built and donated bookshelves, and landscaped a school.
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RYS-Australia: RYS Project in the Crossroads
- Saturday, October 11, 2003
Red Fern, Sydney, Australia—This program gathered seventy young adults from various faiths to have some interreligious programs and offer service to the Aboriginal community.
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RYS-Honduras: Launching of the IIFWP/RYS Medical Clinic
- Saturday, September 27, 2003
Tegucigalpa, Honduras—The RYS worked in cooperation with Service for Peace dedicated this day in order to commemorate the UN International Day of Peace through offering a day of service and reflection at in doing service at the School of Midwifery in Rivers State.
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RYS-Nigeria Commemorates United Nations International Day of Peace
- Sunday, September 21, 2003
River State, Nigeria—The RYS worked in cooperation with Service for Peace dedicated this day in order to commemorate the UN International Day of Peace through offering a day of service and reflection at in doing service at the School of Midwifery in Rivers State.
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RYS-Paraguay: Community Harmony, Environmental Sustainability: Gateway to Peace
- Thursday, August 28, 2003
Puerto Diana, Paraguay—Participants worked in the Native Indian village of Deena on the Paraguay River in the Pantanal. There they helped build the foundation and walls for a new community school. Participant spent a day of service at a school in the poorer ‘Las Chacaritas’ district of the capital.
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RYS in Trinidad & Tobago; Caring for the Environment as a Spiritual Responsibility
- Thursday, August 14, 2003
Trinidad & Tobago—RYS works on environment cleaning with Bocco Reef Foundation at Aripo Heights. During this project participants also constructed a room to train disabled youth and paint the Charis School, peace mural in the inner city.
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RYS-Sri Lanka: Peace Through Interreligious Dialogue & Service
- Wednesday, August 13, 2003
Jaffna, Sri Lanka—RYS finished constructing and painting walls, building a small room, and laying a roof of a preschool. In addition, we donated furniture and play equipment for the school and repaired a fence and planted trees and a garden.
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RYS-Indonesia Helps Bridge Communities with Unity in Diversity Program
- Monday, June 30, 2003
Jogjakarta, Indonesia—To help heal the past animosity between the Chinese Indonesian and the Malay Indonesian communities the Indonesian Confucius Society helped organize RYS work at an old Islamic School.
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