Youth from different countries engage in work camp

Tinkong (E/R), April 12, GNA - A 10-day international work camp to support the people of Tinkong near Adawso in the Akuapem North District to renovate the local D/A Junior Secondary School (JSS) building has opened at Tinkong.The 10-day work camp is expected to end on April 17 and 35 young people from Ghana, Nigeria, Cote D'Ivoire, USA, Netherlands and Austria are taking part in the project.
The work camp is being organized by the Religious Youth Service (RYS), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) committed to inter-religious dialogue and action for peace building affiliated to Inter Religious and International Federation of World Peace based in New York.
Speaking at the formal launch at Tinkong, the West African Director of RYS, Mr. Tseney S. Kerim, said the project is estimated at 7,000 US Dollars.
He said the community was expected to support the project with artisans, sand, stones, water and communal labour.
Mr Kerim said the project was to bring people from different nationalities, of different religious background and cultural difference to live, work and share ideas as envisaged by the founding father or the NGO, Rev. Sun Myung Moon of South Korea.
He called on the Tinkong community to co-operate and ensure the success of the project.The Chief of Tinkong, Nana Owusu Fianko, advised the youth of the area to associate themselves with organizations that could contribute towards the progress of their community and the country as a whole.
The RYS Educator, Ms Ana Olson, said an important legacy that RYS wished to leave with the youth of Tinkong was the desire to offer service for the benefit of others.
She said the greatest legacy that a parent could leave children was to teach them how to offer service for the development of society without expecting to be paid for it.
Ms Olson said the uniqueness of RYS was the organization of work camps that brings people from different background and nationalities together to share experience and challenges them to work together.
She said such experience was necessary in the promotion of world peace because the world was becoming a global village where people needed to understand each order if peace was to prevail.
The Eastern Regional Co-ordinating Director, Mr Sylvester A. Manu who chaired the function, assured the RYS and the people of Tinkong of the support of the Regional Co-ordinating Council (RCC).

12 April 07