WYAAP Summer Camp 2010

Summer Camp Experience by: Taking Marella There comes a point when time is suspended. You are emancipated from the hectic city-life, and break free from the constraints of ordinary life. In that frozen point, you let the past catch up to you and you know that you have in your hands the future; so when […]

WYA Asia Pacific Launches “There is More to Me Than What You See!” Campaign

Throughout the year, WYA Asia Pacific will regularly feature different young people in its campaign There is More to Me Than What You See! in celebration of the International Year of the Youth 2010-2011. WYA offers unique opportunities for the youth to prove that there is so much more that you can contribute to the […]

WYAAP Summer Camp 2010

Summer Camp Experience By: Margaret Alexie Sipaco de Leon During the week leading to my departure for summer camp, I begged my mom to allow me to not go. Due to my irrational fear of tan lines, unsetting nerves, thoughts of not getting along with fellow participants, and even the whole 400-must-read-pages raced through my […]

WYAAP Summer Camp 2010

Summer Camp Experience When I first thought of joining the summer camp, I was expecting it to be full of excitement and just mild enrichment but after experiencing it, I realized that it was far more than what I imagined. After a week of being in Binmaley, Pangasinan, it was as if finishing a whole […]

WYA Launches its Millennium Development Goal #5 Campaign

Be Part of This Campaign on Maternal Health! WYA DECLARATION ON MATERNAL HEALTH We are a global coalition of young people reflecting diverse ethnic, cultural, economic, political and social backgrounds from all regions of the world. We have observed with concern the lack of progress made on MDG 5, Improving Maternal Health, which is currently […]

The XVIII International AIDS conference The XVIII International AIDS conference last week in Vienna is probably one of the most eye opening situations I have been in, in my life.During thewhole week I have been in a lot of meetingswith people with all types of lifestyles and backgrounds -heterosexuals, transgender, sex workers, doctors, teachers, activists, […]

‘La prevención del VIH entre trabajadores sexuales inmigrantes’

El pasado 22 de Julio, 2010 durante la XVIII Conferencia Internacional del sida* en Viena, Austria se discutió el tema sobre ‘La prevención del VIH entre trabajadores sexuales inmigrantes’, enfocado en hombres trabajadores sexuales chinos, extranjeros y su movilización. Los puntos discutidos por los expositores, dos hombres de nacionalidad China (quienes no hablaban inglés) y […]