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-Guatemala
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.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-United Kingdom
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.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-Taiwan
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.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-Ghana
Kasoa, Ghana— At the IRFF Agriculture Institute six rooms were constructed by the RYS participants.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-Romania
Transylvania, Romania— RYS participants repair a school in rural Transylvania
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-Honduras
Tegucigalpa, Honduras— RYS participants helped roof and build walls for eight classrooms with local workers joining in.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-Bangladesh
Bangladesh— Students from the RYS Club at Dhaka University practice interfaith cooperation through a road construction project.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-Croatia
Drnis, Croatia— Participants worked on four rooms of an out patient clinic, laid the roof, grounds restoration.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-Sri Lanka
Koskandawala, Sri Lanka— At a temple premises in Gampaha district restoration work on a playground and grounds of the local pre-school.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-South India
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.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-Haiti
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.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-Sri Lanka
IIIukativakanda Village, Sri Lanka— Road construction in a small rural village done in conjunction with the Sarvodaya movement.