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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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Religious Youth Service's Participates in Fifth Friendship Americas Project
- Friday, January 31, 1997
Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala— The year began with the RYS active in the America's as Guatemala hosted its second project in Santiago Atitlan on beautiful Lake Atitlan. The project had thirty participants and staff build an additional wing on a school whose student body is composed largely from children who were victims of the recent civil war.
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Religious Youth Service Does Green Projects in Great Britain
- Sunday, September 8, 1996
Birmingham, Great Britain— Work occurred in Saltley and Nechells (a part of Birmingham's inner city) a nature trail and picnic area was built and an old bus garage was made into a recycling centre and a tree nursery formed was formed.
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Numerous Cultural Programs Join RYS in First 'As Friends' Project in Taiwan
- Saturday, August 31, 1996
Taipei, Taiwan— This was a major project which drew participants and staff came from nine nations. Senior education leaders worked to develop the international educational background and communication skills of the participants. Numerous cultural programs were part of the program and the RYS built on the national foundations in Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Taiwan RYS alumni.
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RYS Participants Construct Rooms at the IRFF Agriculture Institute in Ghana
- Monday, August 26, 1996
Kasoa, Ghana— At the IRFF Agriculture Institute six rooms were constructed by the RYS participants.
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Religious Youth Service Repairs A School in Rural Transylvania.
- Sunday, August 11, 1996
Transylvania, Romania— RYS participants repair a school in rural Transylvania
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RYS's Third Friendship America's Project Builds Classrooms with Locals in Honduras
- Tuesday, July 2, 1996
Tegucigalpa, Honduras— RYS participants helped roof and build walls for eight classrooms with local workers joining in.
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RYS Participants Practice Interfaith Cooperation Through a Road Construction Project in Bangladesh
- Monday, May 13, 1996
Bangladesh— Students from the RYS Club at Dhaka University practice interfaith cooperation through a road construction project.
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RYS-Croatia Participants Assists in Restoring a Clinic
- Sunday, April 7, 1996
Drnis, Croatia— Participants worked on four rooms of an out patient clinic, laid the roof, grounds restoration.
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RYS-Sri Lanka Works to Restore Playground in Gampaha District
- Sunday, March 17, 1996
Koskandawala, Sri Lanka— At a temple premises in Gampaha district restoration work on a playground and grounds of the local pre-school.
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Roads Widened in India with RYS
- Sunday, February 25, 1996
Karukutty, Kerala, South India— RYS worked on widening rural village roads along with local villages based on the foundation of Gramswaraj, a Gandhian rural development outreach based at the Mohatma Gandhi University.
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RYS-Haiti works with Friendship Americas Project
- Monday, January 15, 1996
Port-au-Prince, Haiti— The RYS in an effort to work to create a wider network of cooperating organization is working with Friendship America Projects. Participants roofed a school building, helped make a foundation for a clinic and landscaped the terrain at the Haitian Academy.
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RYS Constructs Road in a Rural Sri Lankan Village
- Sunday, December 24, 1995
IIIukativakanda Village, Sri Lanka— Road construction in a small rural village done in conjunction with the Sarvodaya movement.
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