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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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Preliminary RYS Seminars in Asia
- Sunday, January 31, 1993
Asia—In preparation for the RYSGF it was decided to prepare youth audiences throughout South Asia by holding frequent seminars on the workshop themes.
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RYS-Bangladesh Organizes Projects with School Clubs
- Wednesday, October 21, 1992
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.
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RYS-Sri Lanka hosts South Asia Project
- Friday, September 4, 1992
Ratnapura, Sri Lanka—RYS volunteers worked in a poor religiously diverse community providing health surveys for the Ministry of Health.
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Caring for the Environment in Czechoslovakia
- Friday, July 24, 1992
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.
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RYS-Czechoslovakia holds Seminars and Workshops
- Thursday, July 23, 1992
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.
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Communities Serving Communities in Ghana
- Monday, May 4, 1992
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.
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RYS has International Alumni Leadership Training in India
- Wednesday, March 4, 1992
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.
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RYS-India Restores Temple and Excavates Sacred Monuments
- Monday, March 2, 1992
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.
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RYS Restores a School in Bangladesh
- Friday, January 31, 1992
Dhaka, Bangladesh—Participants did light construction and restoration work on a school. This first national project was served to pull in a large number of good students into the RYS vision.
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RYS-India Paves Roads and Builds Facilities for St. Joseph's Elementary School
- Tuesday, October 1, 1991
Cochin, Kerela, India—This project had a powerful impact on the Kochin and India interfaith community because of its linkage to the WFIRC interfaith meeting. Several interfaith leaders in the Kerala area were moved by the RYS and they helped make a foundation for further activities in that state.
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RYS-Hungary Restores Shelters and Gardens
- Wednesday, July 31, 1991
Hungary—The Hungary project was done with the strong cooperation of the Hungarian Red Cross whose volunteers helped make the Tatabanya program a huge success.
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RYS-England Creats a Peace Garden from an Abandoned Lot
- Wednesday, July 3, 1991
Southall, England—RYS alumni, Marshal D' Souza sought to create a local model which could attract support form campuses and religious organizations in the growing diverse nation of England. As a result a Peace Garden was created out of an abandon rubbish filled lot. RYS participants and staff helped with removing garbage, digging and landscaping, and some light construction.
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