Friday, April 25, 2008

Networking With Every Corner

Six A.M. in the morning of March, 28, 2008 TYR Board Member 4ReAl goes to Camp Finch, a camp site in south west Pennsylvania to attend The First Annual MANA Youth Retreat. When we asked 4ReAl how he felt about traveling eight hours from home representing TYR he said, “Staying in a cabin high up in the hill by Lake Erie was an experience of a lifetime,”
The retreat was conducted and lead very well by many Muslim youth from many parts of the country such as Kalamazoo, Boston, New Haven, Oakland, Atlanta, Harlem, and many more. The Youth of MANA and the other fifty attending met most of the weekend of the retreat discussing common issues and networking with each other in the process. However, the retreat was not all meetings and workshops; it also contained some camp activities such as horseback riding, BB-gun target practice, rock-climbing, and Archery. “In the end when it was time to come back home, I felt more unified with the Muslim youth of the world then I ever have in my life.”

Change - 4ReAl featuring Barrack Obama