Religious Youth Service
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Non- Governmental and Other Organisations
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200 White Plains Road. Floor 1, Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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Aim
Provide an environment wherein youth from diverse cultures and faiths can rise above doctrinal differences, unite in activities of service and learning, and develop leadership abilities that enable them to help create a culture of peace; provide youth from diverse cultures and faiths with alternatives to violence; offer service opportunities which allow the breakdown of barriers, foster altruism, facilitate friendship and build community; develop and apply best practice models of leadership, human cooperation and relationship; increase effective leadership abilities, learned by experience; create settings wherein intercultural experiences can occur; give opportunities to express and share spirituality and/or religious traditions with others; provide occasions to hear from community and religious leaders, and explore the peace building characteristics of their cultures; encourage meaningful interaction, allowing insights from interaction immediately to be applied to promoting peace; cultivate learning by reflection; assure succession, replication and expansion of RYS human capital through education and training.
History
The Religious Youth Service is a nonprofit organisation founded in 1986 to give opportunities to young religious people to live and work together as a community.
IRD Activities
- RYS Projects
RYS Projects are experiential, social service-learning programmes that stand as models for creating peace among the people of the world. The projects are designed to draw out the best qualities of each person's culture or faith, and furthermore, to broaden the horizons of all involved
- RYS Peace Parks
An RYS Peace Park is an artistic creation built as a reflection of the harmony of diverse people. The RYS Peace Parks provide a context enabling interreligious youth to put aside doctrinal differences, to unite in activities of spirit, creativity, worship, and service-learning and, in this way, to showcase a model of peaceful community
- RYS Seminars and Short Projects
RYS Seminars and Short Projects are educational meetings imparting or modeling RYS methodology and training concepts. RYS hosts a variety of one- to seven-day gatherings and seminars to provide opportunities for dialogue, discussion and action in response to current, socially relevant issues and needs
- RYS Clubs
RYS Clubs are organizations or associations that are conceptually aligned with RYS but are legally independent. As a natural consequence of attending an RYS program, alumni often desire to perpetuate or multiply their experience. Therefore, some alumni have formed RYS clubs and associations. These organizations are legally and operationally independent but have the same basic vision and goals. They can conduct their own activities and can propose RYS programs to the RYS secretariat for approval.
Main Focus Countries of Activities
Moldova - USA - Georgia - Philippines - Honduras - Israel - India - Sri Lanka - Nepal - Thailand - Estonia - Tajikistan - Pakistan - Russian Federation - Portugal - Kenya - Spain - Italy - Poland - Peru - UK - Hungary - Bangladesh - Ghana - Czechia - Malaysia - Turkey - Croatia - Haiti - Romania - China - Guatemala - Mongolia - South Africa - Nigeria - Uganda - Australia - New Zealand - Tonga - Samoa - Nepal - Indonesia - Trinidad and Tobago - Paraguay - Solomon Islands - South Korea - Guyana - Jordan - Palau - Zambia - Jamaica - Estonia - Singapore - Netherlands - Suriname - Ivory Coast - Israel - Saint Lucia - Russian Federation - UK - Netherlands - Moldova - USA - Georgia - Philippines - Honduras - Israel - India - Sri Lanka - Nepal - Thailand - Estonia - Tajikistan - Pakistan - Russian Federation - Portugal - Kenya - Spain - Italy - Poland - Peru - UK - Hungary - Bangladesh - Ghana - Czechia - Malaysia - Turkey - Croatia - Haiti - Romania - China - Guatemala - Mongolia - South Africa - Nigeria - Uganda - Australia - New Zealand - Tonga - Samoa - Nepal - Indonesia - Trinidad and Tobago - Paraguay - Solomon Islands - South Korea - Guyana - Jordan - Palau - Zambia - Jamaica - Estonia - Singapore - Netherlands - Suriname - Ivory Coast - Israel - Saint Lucia - Indonesia - India