Discussion Night

Tonight is Discussion Night at GYV.  Youth are split into 7 groups of 7; they are given an opportunity to use the ground rules they learned in their Dialogue Workshops. Here are the 7 discussion topicss:  Food and Diet, Dating and Marriage, Recreation, Politics, Environment, Religion & Spirituality, and Gender. More details on the new perspectives that are gained during Discussion Night to be shared later.

New Friends from Around the World

Fifty more youth are now at Global Youth Village international summer camp for Session B! After a 48 hour break, the campus is buzzing again. So, what is it like to have new friends from around the world? Five participants take a shot at answering that question in this video:

Common Ground

Every summer in Virginia, at Legacy International’s 80 acre campus with beautiful trees, streams, and cabins, you find young people making friends and finding common ground.

A young man from Baghdad talks about some of the challanges he feels face his country  while Liam from Massachusetts listens.  Jason, a staff member and former college football player, teaches a group of US and internationals American football.  The Green Your World workshop plants a fast growing vegetable in the garden and learns how this plant is grown in the mountains in Indonesia. Amanda the counselor maintains her crown as Queen of Ping Pong despite some heavy competition.  Experience it all at GYV.  Legacy International has been showing youth they can be global citizens for the past 32 years.  Check out the Program Choices.

Indonesian Teen Shares His Day

Wondering what kind of conversations you might have with another participant at GYV? Wondering about cultural similarities between you and other global citizens?

GYV Alumni, Syahrial Saputral is from from South Sumatra (Sumatra Island), Indonesia and was part of Legacy International’s  Indonesian Youth Leadership Program.  He attended the Global Youth Village’s  cultural immersion program in 2009.

Syahrial from Indonesia shares the following with you.

I live far away from my family at my boarding school. It’s about ten hours driving by car. I live in a flat now.  I am in my last year of high school.

My usual day goes like this:

• 4.30 : wake up and pray
• 5.00 : prepare everything including my breakfast
• 6.00 : go to school
• 6.25 : bell ringing
• 6.30 : morning ceremony and pray
• 7.00 : classes begin
• 10-10.30 : break time
• 10:30-1:15pm : classes
• 1.15-2 pm : break for lunch and pray
• 2 pm – 4.30 pm :classes
• 4.30 pm :afternoon ceremony
• 5 pm :  time to go back home.

My school is one of best school in my province, so the system is little bit different than other schools which end at 1pm. In my first year of high school, I took all the subjects offered by school.

This is required:

• English
• Indonesian
• Japanese
• math
• biology
• chemistry
• geography
• economic
• sociology
• ICT (information communication and technology)
• sports
• religion
• art
• physics

In my last year there is no art, economics, geography, or sociology.  I  take a couple of science subjects and other compulsary subjects (English, math, Indonesian).

Interested in participating in this year’s cultural immersion program? Our Crossing Cultures Program will include Indonesian youths and well as internationals from around the world.

The Founder’s View

We hear the word “global” a lot nowadays: global warming, global economy, global communications network, global thinking. But what does it really mean to be a citizen of the global village? It means striving to live by values that people of all nations share: values of community responsibility, service, respect, justice, and security. It means honing our skills and knowledge while helping our neighbors, too. It means making the most of diversity within the unity of our common humanity.

The Global Youth Village is a hands-on experience in global citizenship. I am confident that you will discover, as so many before you have, that with trust, cooperation and enthusiasm, you can cross barriers of ethnicity and race, gender and religion, and work together for a better world. Come join us for another exciting summer. We’re not only preparing for the future-we’re creating it!

Yours sincerely,

J.E. Rash
Founder and President

The Domino Effect of Community Service

Recognizing the importance of the “domino effect” on civic engagement within your community is vital to its growth and preservation.  You rarely ever see just one person involved in a “community” project, instead several members are compelled to become involved and make a difference. With this concept in mind, working with youth in particular can change a generation. We need our youth to recognize the value of preserving our communities and encouraging growth in a constructive way. 

Here at the Global Youth Village , we try to instill the importance of this concepts in our participants as we provide the tools necessary for them to become community leaders. We show our participants the importance of giving back, while encouraging their peers to do the same. Our hope is by encourage a small group of youth, we will create a global domino effect amongst youth around the world.

 Become part of our “domino effect” and attend GYV this summer!   APPLY TODAY! E-mail Suhad Rasoul at gyv@legacyintl.org for more information.