The Global Youth Village (GYV) is a summer training program in Virginia for teenagers from around the world. We are also offering a 6-week Arabic Language program in Morocco. Your days are full at the Global Youth Village.  The daily schedule for the Peacebuilding Program and the Cross-Cultural Immersion are slightly different. As you move from workshop to lunch or afternoon activities to dinner you are mingling with participants from around the globe. Walking from place to place allows special moments of understanding between new aquaintances, connections between cultures with impromptu conversation and an understanding of the globa.The Global Youth Village is located on 80 rolling acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern Virginia.  10 miles outside of the town of Bedford, the village is in a world of its own making.GYV is hosted on Legacy International’s eighty  acres of lush woodlands provide a peaceful and safe natural setting. Hiking trails, streams, a pond, organic flower and vegetable gardens foster new relationships with nature.    Up to ten young people share a  wood frame cabin with an adult staff member.  Bathrooms and showers are centrally located near the cabins in the girls’ and boys’ areas.  Program facilities include art studios, pottery and ceramics shop, air-conditioned workshop areas, a store, dining hall, outdoor stage, big top tent, health house, basketball court, soccer field, volleyball/badminton court, table tennis, swimming pool, sites for rock climbing instruction, and fire circles.  An outdoor stage provides a nice setting for evening programs and games.  Temperatures can range form 62 degrees F to 103 degrees F during the day (17 degrees Celsius at night to 40 degrees Celsius during the day).