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Serving the Environment

Editor’s Note:  Post Global Youth Service Day (GYSD), YSA will continue to feature blogs from 15 official GYSD 2011 Bloggers. Our bloggers will share information about their preparation, planning, and celebration of GYSD 2011. Natia Sharikadze, City Representative in Samtskhe – Javakheti Region, Borjomi for the American Councils for International Education sent us this blog post from Sofiko Sherozia – Borjomi Public School #6 and Qeti Baburishvili - Borjomi Public School #3 about their environmental GYSD project.

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Jackson Inner-city Gardeners

Editor’s Note: Post Global Youth Service Day (GYSD), YSA will continue to feature blogs from 15 official GYSD 2011 Bloggers. Our bloggers will share information about their preparation, planning, and celebration of GYSD 2011. Blogger Erika and her husband Farmer Tre’ have worked with youth in various capacities since 1992 at the Jackson Inner-city Gardeners (JIG). JIG creates sustainable food systems while developing youth in Jackson, Mississippi. Their GYSD project happened on April 16th; she wrote this post a few days before the project.

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Supa Fresh Youth Farmers

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Project REcycle's Bike Ride

A young boy receives a bike during Project REcycle

Editor’s Note: Post Global Youth Service Day (GYSD), YSA will continue to feature blogs from 15 official GYSD 2011 Bloggers. Our bloggers will share information about their preparation, plan read more

Exchanging Culture

 

Students tasting Chinese food

Editor’s Note:  Leading up to and post Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) 2011, YSA will feature blogs from 15 official GYSD 2011 Bloggers. Our bloggers will share information about their preparation, planning, and celebration of GYSD 2011. For her GYSD project, blogger Anna Malinovskaya worked with children in an orphanage in Khabarovsk, Russia.

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Grow Food, Grow Hope

The Grow Food, Grow Hope Garden

Editor’s Note:  Leading up to and post Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) 2011, YSA will feature blogs from 15 official GYSD 2011 Bloggers. Our bloggers will share information about their preparation, planning, and celebration of GYSD 2011. Jessica Braun is an AmeriCorps*VISTA at Grow Food, Grow Hope in Wilmington, Ohio. 

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The “Armenian Ornaments” Decorates our Lives!

 

Editor’s Note: Post Global Youth Service Day (GYSD), YSA will continue to feature blogs from 15 official GYSD 2011 Bloggers. Our bloggers will share information about their preparation, planning, and celebration of GYSD 2011. An alumna of the Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX) Gyumri, Armenia wrote this blog post about their GYSD 2011 project.

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The Two Sides of Youth Engagement

Editor’s Note: Alex Wirth is currently a member of Youth Service America’s (YSA) National Youth Advisory Councils and a youth member of Youth Service America’s Board of Directors. He is an official blogger on Huffington Post; read his first blog post about youth engagement below. read more

Best Buddies Friendship Walk in Jacksonville

Editor’s Note: Post Global Youth Service Day (GYSD), YSA will continue to feature blogs from 15 official GYSD 2011 Bloggers. read more

City Year DC and 200 Youth Transform a DC School

City Year DC Young Heroes and a volunteer at Johnson Middle School.

Editor’s Note: Post Global Youth Service Day (GYSD), YSA will continue to feature blogs from 15 official GYSD 2011 Bloggers. read more

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