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Site Day #396: Global Youth Service Day 2016!

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Today, my site celebrated Global Youth Service Day. GYSD is celebrated all around the world and it is basically youth inspired to do community service in their towns and villages. We wrangled some students together to pick up trash around the Tessaban and eat snacks. Last year, the group was larger, but that’s okay. It gave me an oppurtunity to chat and catch up with my students. They were really awesome troopers and the area is nice and clean now. We also talked about the importance of community service and of trash clean up. 

Peace Corps Volunteers worldwide commemorate Global Youth Service Day by working with children, youth and young adults to be more active citizens in their communities. This year, many Volunteers are using Global Youth Service Day activities to promote environmental awareness on Earth Day. 

Observed April 20 to 22, Global Youth Service Day provides Volunteers with an opportunity to engage youth and local community members in long-term service projects. For more than 10 years, Peace Corps Volunteers and their community partners have celebrated Global Youth Service Day and Earth Day through various activities.

Throughout the year, Peace Corps Volunteers work with youth to foster skills for transitioning from school to work, and becoming engaged in their communities. Volunteers also develop extracurricular activities that help local youth build confidence and develop decision-making, communication and leadership skills that promote positive relationships with peers, parents and adults. 

Five percent of Peace Corps Volunteers work in the youth in community development sector as their primary assignment, while another 40 percent of Volunteers work in the education sector. 

(Source: go.usa.gov)