't Goylaan 97-1
3525 AC Utrecht
Utrecht
Netherlands
- Youth and education
1. To promote a youth culture of service. Help young people to take initiative and contribute to society;
2. To organise activities for youth with different backgrounds and cultures, which are aimed at serving the local and international community;
3. Character-building activities through:
a. getting to know the immense social and cultural richness which the world contains
b. the cooperation of people with different cultural and religious backgrounds
c. studying and conveying universal values
d. counter the attitudes of materialism, relativism, and selfishness
4. Teaching the participating youth how to organise a project.
In the past Youth Service Initiative has already organised three service projects in Ghana in collaboration with the organization "Community Partnership for Youth and Women Development, Ghana", plus all the projects that the previous participants organised.
You can easily find all the reports of YSI first year participants at the webpage http://www.youthserviceinitiative.org/?q=en/taxonomy/term/1&page=1, while reports from YSI second year are available at http://www.youthserviceinitiative.org/?q=en/taxonomy/term/2.
The activities organized so far by YSI 2008-2009 participants are right at www.youthserviceinitiative.org.
They are most of all service activities, such as cleaning parks, promoting voluntary work, making old people meet young people, activities with children or handicap people…