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: UPF - Tajikistan
Dushanbe, Tajikistan - "Dushanbe – City of Peace," was the theme of the first Religious Youth Service project in Tajikistan, May 25-31, 2013, that included visiting religious and historic sites and taking orphan children on an outing.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: Atif Saeed, Communication Coordinator RYS-Pakistan
Multan, Pakistan - A Religious Youth Project in Multan, Pakistan, March 18-23, 2013, included cross-cultural experiences, an international peace conference, planting trees in various religious institutions and visits to historic sites.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: Marcus Younas, Religious Youth Service-Pakistan
Multan, Pakistan - “Youth of Faith Build Peace by Practice of Love and Service” was the theme of a second project of Religious Youth Service-Pakistan, planned for March 15 to 22. Local and international youth were invited to explore cultural unity through working together in one of the ancient cities of Asia. The program included a international peace conference, planting trees at religious institutions, and visits to historical sites.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: Religious Youth Service
Religious Youth Service Resources for Organizers
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: kito
Religious Youth Service Projects in 2012
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: UPF - Sri Lanka
Puttlam District, Sri Lanka - In the ongoing process of healing the wounds of civil war, participants in a Dec. 15-21, 2012, Religious Youth Service project built a community center in a northwestern Sri Lanka village where Muslim civilians found safe haven during the civil war.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: UPF - Nepal
Kavre, Nepal - A Religious Youth Service project at an orphanage and monastery in Banepa in the Kavre District of Nepal Dec. 2-9, 2012, included community-based service, education in values, leadership training, interfaith visits and dialogues and cross-cultural learning experiences.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: Religious Youth Service - Nepal
Kavre, Nepal - UPF-Nepal organized a Religious Youth Service project that included renovating an orphanage and building a wall at a Buddhist monastery in Kavre, central Nepal, December 1 through 8.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: RYS - Sri Lanka
Kalpitiya, Sri Lanka - In the Puttlam district of northwest Sri Lanka are living many Muslims who were displaced during the country's decade-long civil war, and RYS-Sri Lanka is inviting local and international youth to help build a community center in the district's coastal town of Kalpitiya December 15 to 21.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: Religious Youth Service - Pakistan
Multan, Pakistan - Youth from all provinces of Pakistan assembled in Multan Oct. 12-19, 2012, for a multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural Religious Youth Service project that included service-learning activities, visits to religious sites and providing a drinking water system and toilets for Hindu slum dwellers.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: Sokol Rexhepi, project coordinator
Tirana, Albania - Young people from six nations took part in the first Religious Youth Service project in Tirana, Albania, Aug. 20-26, 2012, where they planted trees and learned world religions from religious leaders and scholars.
- Religious Youth Service
- Written by: UPF - Estonia
Twenty-eight youth from 13 nations assembled in Pilistvere, Estonia, Aug. 13-22, 2012, where they renovated a monument to the victims of communist repression and made improvements at the Lutheran church's summer café.