A Bahá'í Perspective: Bahia Odess-Gillett

Many times Bah#225;'#237; youth will take a year off between high school and college and do what Bah#225;'#237;s call a Year of Service. This typically involves volunteering at a Bah#225;'#237; inspired project of some kind in service to humanity. Bahia Odess-Gillett is a 19 year old who, after graduating from high school, went overseas to Northern Ireland to participate in a social issues-oriented dance workshop called Lights of Unity and to Kosovo where she worked for a non governmental organization called the Global Perspectives Development Centre. The interesting part of the story is her resistance to the idea of doing a year of service and the events in her life that led her to changing her mind.