Location and Facilities
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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).
US participants may fly in to airports in Roanoke, 75 miles West or to Lynchburg, 35 miles East.
Or meet up with the Internationals who will fly in to Washington, DC. There we arrange for coach service to Bedford.
Driving directions are available for parents who want to bring their child by car.
Contact for Suhad Rasoul for more information.
