Youth Island NY 2017 & 2018 Trips
Youth Island NY partnered with Embrace Relief for humanitarian trips to Haiti in 2017 and Tanzania in 2018, focusing on construction, education, and orphanage support. The group is now preparing for a mission to Uganda to provide healthcare screenings and food packages.
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In 2017, Youth Island NY traveled to Haiti to teach English, complete construction projects, and supply orphanages with food.
The 2018 mission to Tanzania involved building a water well and refurbishing an orphanage with furniture and supplies.
Each year, a team of eight students and a mentor administers humanitarian aid including health screenings and food drives.
The group is raising funds for an upcoming trip to Uganda to conduct health screenings for 1,400 people and distribute food.
Mission Overview
In 2017, Youth Island of New York traveled to Haiti where they taught English to local school children, completed various construction projects, and supplied three orphanages with food. The following year in 2018, the group traveled to Tanzania where they built a water well that continues to serve the village. They also refurbished an orphanage with donated beds, tables, chairs, toys and painted cartoons on the walls of the orphanage.
Each year, in collaboration with Embrace Relief, Youth Island NY gathers a team of eight students and a mentor for international trips to administer humanitarian aid in the form of health screenings, construction and food drives.
2017 Haiti Trip
In the summer of 2017, a team traveled to Haiti. During the trip, the students taught local children English and carried out various constructive activities. Besides supplying three orphanages with food, they helped them improve and maintain proper sanitary practices.
Group Fundraising
2018 Tanzania Trip
A year later in Tanzania, they built a water well in a village experiencing water scarcity and assisted in the refurbishment of an orphanage. The volunteers donated and assembled new beds complete with pillows, sheets, blankets, as well as tables, toys and slippers. To brighten the children’s environment, they painted the walls with cartoon characters.
Upcoming Uganda Mission
This coming summer, they will bring their services to Uganda, where many residents are without access to basic healthcare services. While there, the team hopes to conduct screenings for 1,400 people, preventing diseases like malaria, HIV and diarrhea. In particular, they wish to improve the welfare of children. 4,000 people will also receive food packages.
Youth Island NY relies entirely on donations to perform these services and so the group asks you to consider contributing to its fundraising campaign. Your contribution will feed families, improve wellbeing and bestow aid recipients with the means to further their own development.