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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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RYS Youth Improve Monastary in Pokhara, Nepal
- Friday, October 1, 2010
Pokhara, Nepal - About 30 dynamic youth representing different faiths attended this year’s project at the Tibetan Buddhist monastery of Ven. Kalsang Lama, one of the most revered spiritual leaders in Nepal. Service activities included painting the wall around the peace prayer wheel, and digging out an area for the wall around the monastery.
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Tibetan Monastery Hosts Religious Youth Service Project in Nepal
- Friday, October 1, 2010
Pokhara, Nepal - About 30 dynamic youths representing different faiths attended a Religious Youth Service project in Pokhara September 24 to October 1. Representatives came from the Buddhist, Baha’i, and Jain religions.
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UPF, RYS and Gandhian Institutions commemorate the International Day of Peace 2010, Chennai, India
- Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Chennai, India - The Universal Peace Federation and Religious Youth Service, in association with the Federation of Gandhian Institutions, commemorated the International Day of Peace in Chennai, India on September 21, 2010. Interreligious prayers for world peace, nonviolence and ceasefire, and a candlelight vigil marked this occasion.
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Sports for Peace Program - Team-Building Exercises
- Sunday, August 29, 2010
The following interactive learning exercises can be used as part of Sports for Peace programs.
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Religious Youth Service Supports Summer Camp for Displaced Haitian Children
- Sunday, August 29, 2010
Cache Cache Douge, Haiti - Expressing a vision emerging from the rubble of the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, several NGOs, including Religious Youth Service, offered a joy-filled, educationally creative, character building memorable week to Haitian girls in an encampment near Port-au-Prince Aug. 19-29.
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St. Lucia Hosts a Religious Youth Service Project
- Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Castries, St. Lucia - A Religious Youth Service project is taking place August 7 to 17 in the verdant Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia, noted for its green mountains, white sand beaches, and friendly residents. RYS volunteers are staying in fishing village in Anse-la-Raye just ten miles from the capital city of Castries.
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Religious Youth Service Helps Promote a Caring Community in St. Lucia
- Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Anse la Raye, St. Lucia - International volunteers joined with 14 St. Lucians Aug. 7-17, 2010, in a Friendship Americas project that included rebuilding homes of senior citizens.
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Exploring Interest in Religious Youth Service in Hong Kong and Macau
- Saturday, May 22, 2010
Religious Youth Service Director John Gehring visited Hong Kong and Macau after the May 7-16, 2010 project in Thailand and met with students, religious leaders, and peace activists to explore avenues of interest in Religious Youth Service programs.
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Religious Youth Service Promotes Peace Education in Northern Ghana
- Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Tamale, Ghana - In the conflict zone of northern Ghana, UPF and Religious Youth Service organized a youth seminar on July 6 and peace rally on July 8, 2010, in coordination with the Community Partnership for Youth and Women Development.
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Sharing the Religious Youth Service Vision in Asia
- Monday, May 17, 2010
Bangkok, Thailand - On May 17, the turmoil of a political conflict was spilling into violence in one section of Bangkok. In another section of the city the UPF invited me as International Director of Religious Youth Service to make a presentation about our service-learning activities to leaders from 16 nations of South and South-East Asia.
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RYS Students Help with Improvements to School in Plaeng Yao, Thailand
- Sunday, May 16, 2010
Plaeng Yao, Chacheongsao Province, Thailand - Young adults from 10 nations representing five religions came to the rural area of Thailand where the local school had only four classrooms for six grades. When they left the village, they had dramatically elevated the four classrooms nearly four meters, in order to create space below for four new rooms-more than enough space to allow the children to study together with their peers.
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Religious Youth Service Project Helps Renovate Thai School
- Friday, May 7, 2010
Chacheongsao, Thailand - Government officials, Ambassadors for Peace, Muslim leaders, and students welcomed volunteers with Religious Youth Service who are helping to renovate the Prachanukhro School.
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