What is GYSD?
Global Youth Service Day celebrates and mobilizes the millions of young people who improve their communities each day of the year through service. Established in 1988, Global Youth Service Day is the largest service event in the world, and the only day of service dedicated to children and youth.
GYSD is celebrated each year in over 100 countries, with young people working together--and with schools, youth organizations, nonprofits, community and faith-based organizations, national service programs, government agencies, and adult mentors-- to address the world’s most critical issues and change their communities.
GYSD in ISS
This year, the theme of GYSD was Hunger.
In order to appropriately address the theme of Hunger during GYSD, the ISS GIN committee held a free dress day on Friday, 26th of April to raise awareness of the issue, "Hunger" throughout the world. Students were asked to support the cause by wearing anything in the color ORANGE be it hats, shirts, socks, accessories etc. In order to involve maximized number of students, we created contests where the homeroom with the most number of students wearing orange would win a prize.
Global Youth Service Day celebrates and mobilizes the millions of young people who improve their communities each day of the year through service. Established in 1988, Global Youth Service Day is the largest service event in the world, and the only day of service dedicated to children and youth.
GYSD is celebrated each year in over 100 countries, with young people working together--and with schools, youth organizations, nonprofits, community and faith-based organizations, national service programs, government agencies, and adult mentors-- to address the world’s most critical issues and change their communities.
GYSD in ISS
This year, the theme of GYSD was Hunger.
In order to appropriately address the theme of Hunger during GYSD, the ISS GIN committee held a free dress day on Friday, 26th of April to raise awareness of the issue, "Hunger" throughout the world. Students were asked to support the cause by wearing anything in the color ORANGE be it hats, shirts, socks, accessories etc. In order to involve maximized number of students, we created contests where the homeroom with the most number of students wearing orange would win a prize.
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We also played some videos addressing hunger and starvation in Africa so that students could get a better idea of situations in other parts of the world. For students to acknowledge the color orange as a color of hunger, and so that they can directly link it to the famishing people in many numerous regions of the world, we organized a face painting session to further promote the theme of hunger.
The highlight of GYSD was the orange tree made out of recycled paper. During homeroom and advisory, we requested all homeroom teachers to let their students participate in this particular event. Basically, the GINners had cut out orange circles and distributed them out to the students. The students were then told to write their most honest and truthful opinions on the issue of hunger. We then collected the oranges and pasted them individually onto the orange tree. We pasted the tree infront of the Counsellor's office so that more students could have access to the tree and view it. It was the most successful outcome of this year's GYSD because we could directly involve students into participating in the event.