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Religious Youth Service
Religious Youth Service Offers Seminar for Youth and Professors in Chennai
April 14, 2007
Chennai, India - Religious Youth Service organized an interreligious program for young people and professors from Loyola College in Chennai on April 14, 2007 to inspire them to take up the challenge of bringing together youth across communal and racial barriers.
RYS Participants Paint and Clean a Muhammadiyah Center
January 2, 2007
Nova Certeza, Singapore – The event coincided with the Islamic festival of Hari Raya Haji, when sacrifice of goats and sheep is made in mosques all around Singapore. Participants engaged in community service work, painting and cleaning the Muhammadiyah center.
RYS 2007 National and International Projects Review
January 1, 2007
RYS Annual Report 2007—2007 was another great year for the Religious Youth Service (RYS). Thanks to the work of our dedicated project developers and educators, we were able to provide an environment for many youth from around the world to rise above doctrinal differences, unite in activities of service learning, and develop leadership abilities that enable them to help in the creation of a culture of peace.
RYS Participants and Local Volunteers Restore Educational Facilities
December 28, 2006
Thailand/Cambodia – Together with local volunteers, the RYS participants were involved in the restoration of several educational facilities. In Thailand, service took place in the Buddhist community of Samut Prakan. Most of the participants (about 35) departed early to go to Siem Reap, Cambodia, where they worked in the Islamic community at the Qamaruddin Al-Islamiyan School located beside the mosque.
Educator's Conference to Promote RYS and Peace Park Projects
December 4, 2006
Clifton, New Jersey, USA – The RYS Educators Conference was held to further standardize our educational plan and create a manual that project leaders can use as a guideline for any future RYS/Peace Park projects.
RYS Holds Celebration and Promotes Interfaith
November 25, 2006
Australia – On November 25th Fazida Razak, an RYS Global manager held an EID celebration at her home in order to celebrate the end of Ramadan. This celebration was also an opportunity to acknowledge the co-partners of Building Bridges events in 2006 and to forge stronger ties for 2007.
RYS Participants Help Rebuild a School in India
November 14, 2006
India – Participants were warmly welcomed by the Muthuvan tribal people, who were very happy to receive outsiders coming to offer substantial help. The RYS participants were instrumental in the critical reconstruction of a local school building, destroyed by the monsoons.
RYS Participants Help Provide Running Water for School
September 3, 2006
Kandapola, Sri Lanka – This year Sri Lanka had a unique RYS program called the CELEBRATION OF LIFE. Participants helped to provide a running water facility for the area around the Methodist College in Kandapola, as well as upgrading the Primary section of the school.
RYS Participants Undertake Restoration Projects in Estonia
August 16, 2006
Pilistvere, Estonia – One group worked at the Lutheran church cleaning and finishing the restoration work in the steeple of the church. The second group worked on two adventure courses which benefited the community and could be enjoyed by everyone. Finally, on the third project, the group built an extension to one side of the sauna and on the roof.
RYS Participants Repair Community Buildings in Waterford
August 15, 2006
Waterford, Jamaica – Thirty-two young people labored enthusiastically cleaning, repairing and painting the Waterford High School, the Waterford Primary School, and the Waterford Community Center.
Religious Youth Service Helps Build a Community Center in Southern Sri Lanka
August 10, 2006
Tangalle, Sri Lanka - After the December 26, 2004 tsunami, RYS worked with other agencies to build a community center and sports complex in Tangalle, on the southern coast.
RYS Organizes a Leadership Seminar in Jamaica
July 30, 2006
Kingston, Jamaica – Religious Youth Service (RYS) organized a Leadership Seminar to educate its next generation of leaders or second wave of leadership, to help expand its worldwide work.
RYS Helps Build a Kindergarten in Lan Jia Chun
July 25, 2006
Lan jia chun, China – Chinese and foreign RYS participants helped the workmen building a kindergarten in the small village.
RYS Participants Restore a Community Meeting Place in Palau
July 23, 2006
Airai, Palau – RYS participants restored Bai ra Mlengl, the village's traditional meeting place.
RYS Helps Build Additions on to a Mayan School
July 12, 2006
Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala – RYS volunteers from Cuba, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, United Kingdom, and the United States helped build additions on to a Mayan school.
RYS Project Renovates Primary School in Malaysia
June 7, 2006
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia— The service project consisted of some heavy brick and cement work, painting and clearing the grounds of a dilapidated Primary School.
Religious Youth Service Promotes Interreligious Harmony in Chennai, India
April 4, 2006
Religious Youth Service teamed up Indian athletes from the Interreligious Peace Sports Festival to clean and preserve a 100-year-old sacred painting in a 2,000-year-old Hindu temple in rural south India in April 2006.
F. Razak: Transformative Experiences in Religious Youth Service
January 2, 2006
At the end of a Religious Youth Service project in Hungary, a Jewish participant told me, "When I see a Muslim I think they want to kill me. But somehow, you have shown me that not all Muslims want to kill Jews. If you ever come to Israel, you are welcome to my house.” That statement changed my life.
RYS 2006 National and International Projects Review
January 1, 2006
RYS Annual Report 2006—2006 was a good year for Religious Youth Service. Thanks to the work of project developers and educators, we were able to carry out 13 international projects and give over 500 young people from 35 nations an opportunity to experience the stimulating interreligious and intercultural friendship building atmosphere of RYS.
Chennai Hosts Regional Religious Youth Service Project
September 30, 2005
Chennai, India—Forty young, enthusiastic volunteers representing five religions assembled in Chennai Sept. 23-30, 2005 to take part in values education and to build bathrooms at an orphanage