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
Madurai, South India— The RYS Peace Festival was a unique event for the RYS as it was a week full of local and community based events which involved the schools of the community in a variety of activities.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-Philippines
Aphalit, Philippines— RYS volunteer teams worked on the construction of part of a local hospital.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-Malaysia
Sungal Batu/ Teluk Kumbar, Malaysia— The participants demolished an old community hall and laid the foundation for a new community center for the fishing community and painted and refurnished another community center. The project was in part a response to needs of the Ministry of the Fisheries.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-India
New Delhi, India—The RYS Global Congress (RYSGF) centered on ten unique week long seminars. The ten workshops were led by the most experienced and qualified advisors and graduates from the RYS and its sister project, The Youth Seminar for the World Religion's (YSWR).
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-Asia
Asia—In preparation for the RYSGF it was decided to prepare youth audiences throughout South Asia by holding frequent seminars on the workshop themes.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-Bangladesh
Chittagong, Bangladesh—The RYS alumni in Bangladesh began an RYS club and started to hold meeting on campus and at other NGO locations. They worked to create and organize a second national project and could invite some of the neighboring nations to get involved. The theme of the project was "Green Project" and helped organizers to highlight issues that would serve to raise environmental conscience.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-Sri Lanka
Ratnapura, Sri Lanka—RYS volunteers worked in a poor religiously diverse community providing health surveys for the Ministry of Health.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-Czechoslovakia
Brno Prague, Czechoslovakia—The work project was designed to be in line with the educational theme: "Caring for the environment." All seventy participants and staff helped on various tasks at a large nursery/greenhouse where thousands of seedlings were cared for and large areas were weeded.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-Czechoslovakia
Prague, Czechoslovakia—This seminar had three different workshops and was held on the last full day of the RYS project. The workshops involved 120 local participants plus the RYS participants.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-Ghana
Kodzi, Ghana—RYS participants worked on the renovation of a local school with ten classrooms. Much of the work consisted of moving earth and bricks, laying bricks, clearing grounds, landscaping and other light construction work.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-India
Vrindaban, India—The RYS participants worked to restore and paint old Hindu temple and spent much time excavating sacred monuments at a burial site that were covered by the passage over hundreds of years.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS-India
Vrindaban, India—The RYS participants worked to restore and paint old Hindu temple and spent much time excavating sacred monuments at a burial site that were covered by the passage over hundreds of years.