GUILFORD — Young individuals ages 13-18 within the higher Brattleboro space are invited to attend an info session on becoming a member of a multicultural interfaith youth group from midday to 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 7, on the Pavilion at Guilford Community Park. The youth group usually meets at the moment as soon as a month, on the primary Sunday, culminating in a much-anticipated week-long service journey within the spring of 2026.
According to organizers, the aim of this group is to construct a multicultural neighborhood by way of friendships, enjoyable and repair — making a distinction. Church affiliation or attendance isn’t anticipated although quite a few spiritual organizations in Windham County assist the trouble by internet hosting the group on a rotating foundation and guaranteeing that each one can take part, no matter their religious affiliation or their potential to pay or fundraise.
“The youth group benefits equally from the perspectives of young people who are newcomers to this culture and from the experience of youth who have grown up here,” defined Brian Remer, one of many group’s facilitators. Remer describes the group’s evolution right into a dynamic multicultural membership for teenagers who’re keen on sharing their cultures and studying about one another.
Each gathering usually contains a brief neighborhood service challenge for which the youth obtain credit towards the 40 neighborhood service hours required for BUHS commencement and if there’s each curiosity and dedication, the group can journey to extra distant service websites within the US and overseas, constructing management expertise and social justice.
In the previous decade, youth carried out neighborhood service in locations as numerous as New Orleans, Kenya, St. Croix, El Salvador and the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. Last spring, a gaggle of 18 together with leaders carried out hurricane aid and labored with the homeless in Asheville, North Carolina. To guarantee huge participation, the group conducts fundraisers main as much as every journey.
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